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SEPTEMBER 2009

Former Green Party Candidate’s Platform Still Relevant

Mark Dunau’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign focused on the importance of the self-employed. This campaign video explains how policies that favor the self-employed over large corporations would have a positive effect on public health and the environment. WATCH VIDEO

JUNE 2009

Proposed Legislation Would Benefit Self-Employed Farmers

On March 12, Congressman Ron Kind from Wisconsin introduced the Equity for Our Nation’s Self-Employed Act of 2009, H.R. 1470, into the House of Representatives. Eric Massa, from New York’s 29th Congressional District, was the first New York representative to cosponsor. As of July 15, there were 44 cosponsors. READ MORE

NOVEMBER 2008

Victory for the Self-Employed

Thanks in part to support from DontSubmit.org, Eric Massa was elected Representative of New York’s 29th Congressional District.

SEPTEMBER 2008

DontSubmit.org endorses Eric Massa

Eric Massa is running in New York’s 29th Congressional District, holding progressive positions on self-employed issues. To see the number of self-employed in the 29th CD, click here.

DECEMBER 2007

Birddogging in New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a great place to birddog insofar as nearly all the presidential candidates focus a large measure of their in person campaign appearances there the month before the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, the events are relatively small, and from the center of the state the candidates are nearly always less than an hour and a half away. READ MORE

JANUARY 2004

Birddogging in New Hampshire

“Birddogging” is an expression used to describe the activities of an advocate who follows candidates for the purpose of declaring a point of view, and hopefully moving candidates to that same opinion. What follows are my experiences birddogging on behalf of the self-employed in the three weeks prior to the 2004 New Hampshire Presidential Primary.
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15 Million Union Members + 23 Million Self-Employed = A Populist Movement

THERE ARE over 23 million self- employed Americans. They account for nearly three-quarters of American businesses, with over a trillion dollars in receipts. The labors of the self- employed are as old as agriculture, and as new as computer programming. The self-employed cut across political party, age, sex, education, religion, creed and geography. They are the backbone of rural and many local urban economies. Because of the Self-Employment Tax, they are acutely aware of their identity as “self-employed,” but not of their large numbers and diversity in the United States. The self-employed are also the fastest growing and largest untapped voting block in the country. Their influence can easily swing future Congressional and Presidential elections. READ FULL ARTICLE

Faces of the Self-Employed: Photographs by Julie Dermansky