Mr Yan calls it "the Samaritan's dilemma": pitting a good act against the potential risk of anything going wrong.Responding to this conundrum, this month the southern city of Shenzhen, often China's most progressive, announced that it will implement the country's first "Good Samaritan" law.
Meanwhile, Roland Burris (D-IL), a progressive, announced late Tuesday that he would not vote to end the Republican filibuster if the amended legislation omits the public option, a move that could derail Reid's ability to find 60 votes to advance the bill even if his Manager's Amendment passes.
In October, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, a forty-eight-year-old alternative newsweekly that was beloved among San Francisco progressives, announced suddenly on its Web site that its next issue would be its last.
On Wednesday, a number of prominent progressives announced that they would not vote for a rule backed by Democratic leadership known as PAYGO, or "Pay As You Go," which would require the incoming Congress to offset any new spending with either an increase in taxes or a cut in government spending.
Meanwhile, a group of like-minded progressives announced last week that they would undertake a media and grassroots campaign to target conservative Democrats who were either trying to water-down Obama's budget proposals or preemptively eliminate the use of (filibuster-proof) reconciliation to pass major legislation.
And now Davis, who is the hope of many progressives, announces an education plan and doesn't explain how she will pay for it; except to say she won't raise taxes.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill)., a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced on Wednesday that she will introduce a progressive-minded budget outline aimed at putting more than two million people to work.
More recently, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif ., responD-Calif .responding demands, announced toat the House will reconstitute a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
Last year, the issue of the LGBT ban came to a head when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had recently swept into City Hall with a whirlwind progressive campaign, announced that he would boycott the parade until all could march openly regardless of gender or sexuality.
In mid-April, progressive activists announced that they'd gathered enough signatures to force a November referendum on Medicaid expansion.
Progressive just announced there will not be a dividend paid under the company's annual variable dividend policy, with respect to 2008.
