[Peace-discuss] The Day They Arrested President Roosevelt

[Barbara kessel]

Brilliant analogy, Bob, showing what is at stake in these kinds of
manipulations - not just "interference" and meddling with other people's
democracy, but wealth and poverty - determining finally who gets to live
large, who gets to just barely live, and who gets to die of poverty. Thank
you for this piece. Barbara Kessel

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> What a dark day for American democracy it was - February 5, 1937, the day
> the crisis over President Roosevelt's struggle with the Supreme Court's
> blocking of the New Deal was "resolved" when Roosevelt was deported to
> Canada. How might America be different today, if minimum wages, the National
> Labor Relations Act, and Social Security had not been overturned by the
> Supreme Court? Maybe 60% of our fellow citizens wouldn't still be living in
> poverty.
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/the-day-they-arrested-pre_b_237678.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/17/112828/523
>
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/265
>
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> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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