Portside

Goldman, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Social Security, Trayvon Martin, student debt, Detroit, pensions

Saving Detroit is a Step Towards Saving America.

We will win the respect we deserve and some benefits

"we should reject this as stereotypical trash."

“If Detroit fails it will hurt our nation as a whole. It will send a message to minority and urban youth that their futures are as hopeless as they seem and the country doesn't care. It will add to a national atmosphere of hopelessness and decay. And we will have missed an opportunity to turn the tide for America's cities.”

Move aside Florida, North Carolina is now the new poster child for voter suppression. The Moral Monday movement in the state is now more important than ever. Maybe someday we’ll look back at this period as the turning point when the nation realized just how important the Voting Rights Act was and is.