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Michael Bonanno is an associate editor for OpEdNews. He is also a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide. OpEd News Member for 983 week(s) and 6 day(s) 170 Articles, 21 Quick Links, 235 Comments, 24 Diaries, 5 Polls
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![]() A Plea to the Left Leaning Talking Heads It's time the left leaning talking heads stopped their talking and starting leading.
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![]() I Long For A Better World (Music) I hope that you find this piece as meaningful as I meant it to be. ![]()
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![]() In Memory of Clay January (November 29, 1948 - February 6, 2013) ...I understand the task of trying to work as hard as possible at everything that would make everything better for everyone...
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![]() Are Nonbelievers the Last Minority to face Discrimination? The irony is that we've had ballot initiatives in several states that outlaw Sharia law, but, even though it's been outlawed since the beginning of the republic, many feel that Judeo-Christian law is OK to force upon people. ![]()
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![]() There Couldn't be a Better Time to Challenge the Corporate Parties The labor movement became strong only because groups like The Wobblies (The Industrial Workers of the World) put their lives on the line and actually spilled blood.
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![]() Exploitation In Action Those of us who do the least bit of critical thinking will see it for what it is, a large multinational corporation exploiting kids and, then, us.
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![]() Again; and Maybe this Time with Feeling I'm not writing this because of my heritage, but the Cosa Nostra has nothing on these corporate miscreants.
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![]() False Equivalency? I Think Not "The NRA says guns don't kill people, people kill people, but I think the gun helps." - Eddie Izzard
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![]() How Citizens United Killed the Gettysburg Address There is a more hideous side to all of the Supreme Court decisions which resulted in the Citizens United v The FEC decision, the 2010 decision that verified that corporations are, indeed, people.
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![]() Job For Sale! Overturn Citizens United and any other previous rulings that led us to this buying of jobs.
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![]() Does the Legal Responsibility of Business Outweigh the Ethical Responsibility? I'm really tired of hearing that government should be run like a business and that CEOs have a legal fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to do whatever it takes to turn a profit.
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![]() If we Turn Our Backs on god, god (and war) Will be in big Trouble Americans aren't getting into trouble nor will they get into trouble for turning their backs on "the spirit in the sky". Americans are getting into trouble for turning their backs on America.
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![]() SPUSA Presidential Candidate Has a Big Plan In the spring of 1968, presidential candidate Richard Nixon led the effort calling for the U.S. Congress to adopt a system of income guarantees. It was publicly presented by President Nixon in August 1969, adopted in April 1970 by a large majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and was later rejected in the U.S. Senate.
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![]() Occupying a "Street" Will Ultimately Fail I remember Mr. Swanson saying something like, "If you've never been arrested for protesting against inequality, you're not trying hard enough." Really.
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![]() Here's Tea in Your Eye Unlike the clueless teabaggers, I want a government that governs.
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![]() Teabaggers; Children of the Sixties? ...teabaggers have hijacked the spirit of the protests which took place in the 60s and early 70s...
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![]() Will "Americans Elect" Their President in 2012? We've all heard the cliché, "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is."
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![]() Frustation with the Lack of Frustration Peoples' hues mean more than peoples' views.
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![]() Dedicated to Unions, the Saviours of the Working Class The following is a song. However, I'm hoping that this can be published in the OpEd section of this fine news outlet because it's an opinion held in 1936 by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson and famously expressed in 1969 in Woodstock, New York by Judy Collins. |