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Most Valuable Progressives of 2008


MOST VALUABLE UNION: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America


MOST VALUABLE POLITICAL GROUP: Progressive Democrats of America

MOST VALUABLE ADVOCACY GROUP: TransAfrica Forum


MOST VALUABLE POLICY GROUP: The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy


MOST VALUABLE STATE OR REGIONAL GROUP: Policy Matters Ohio

MOST VALUABLE GRASSROOTS INITIATIVE: The Green Festivals


MOST VALUABLE THINKER: Anuradha Mittal

Most importantly, she argued that it is time to "stop worshiping the golden calf of the so-called free market and embrace, instead, the principle [that] every country and every people have a right to food that is affordable. When the market deprives them of this, it is the market that has to give."

MOST VALUABLE CABINET PICK: Hilda Solis

MOST VALUABLE HOUSE MEMBER: Marcy Kaptur

MOST VALUABLE SENATOR: Bernie Sanders


MOST VALUABLE STATE OFFICIAL: Mark Ritchie

MOST VALUABLE HEIR TO WOODY GUTHRIE: Dave Alvin