How Progressives Won Four Important Victories in 10 Days

http://www.alternet.org/activism/how-progressives-won-four-important-victories-10-days



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1. Stopping U.S. military strikes on Syria

It is a huge victory that the United States is not bombing Syria right now. If not for the huge mobilization of anti-war pressure on the president and especially on Congress, things would have turned out very differently. It was what the Washington Post called a “test of the strength of the anti-war movement in the Obama era.” We’ve failed earlier tests – Guantanamo, Afghanistan, the expanded drone war, Libya… But this time, yes – we passed the test.

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2. Defeating Larry Summers

The victory in knocking Larry Summers out of the running for Fed chair is connected to the Syria victory. Summers saw the writing on the wall when Obama couldn’t line up progressive Democrats behind a Syria attack. How could the president possibly hold the party line on an unpopular Fed nomination?

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3. Advancing 1.9 million workers’ rights

On September 17, President Obama and Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced that in-home care workers will no longer be excluded from minimum wage and overtime protections.

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4. Forcing Corporations to disclose their CEO-worker pay ratio

The Securities and Exchange Commission has just formally proposed a new rule that requires America’s top firms to annually reveal the ratio between what they pay their CEOs and what they pay their most typical workers.