Ft. Hood: Bombs of War Explode At Home
A Press Release by Military Families Speak OutThe Fort Hood Killings: Military Families Speak Out Offers Condolences The Bombs of War Also Explode at HomeAs the nation was stunned by the horrific...
View ArticleReject Obama's Reassertion of Dictatorial Powers
The Obama administration is claiming, as the New York Timesreports today, that the President has the power to decide unilaterally to jail persons indefinitely without trial, and is planning to detain...
View Article"Story of Bottled Water" Tells Half the Story
"The Story of Bottled Water," a new video from Corporate Accountability International (watch video below), boils down the pitch from corporate water hucksters to, "You pay me a thousand times more for...
View ArticleThe (Jewish) NYT is Crucifying the Pope!?
Archbishop Dolan, speaking from the pulpit of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Palm Sunday, said the pope is "suffering some of the same unjust accusations, shouts of the mob and scourging at the pillar as...
View ArticleProgressives Need an Alternative Economic Vision
One thing this recession, and this election cycle, has made brutally clear is the imperative for progressives to promote an alternative economic vision. Without a clearly articulated vision of a...
View ArticleBreaking: Gibbs Says US Will Review Aid to Egypt
In a briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just said the US will immediately review aid to Egypt. That's good as far as it goes, but the call must be for the US to immediately...
View ArticleMuslim Dissidents & Anti-Arab Racism
Yes, and how many ears must one man (sic) have / Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows / That too many people have died?… Yes, and how many years can some...
View ArticleVoltaire on Glenn Beck "Not Not" Blaming God for Earthquake
According to the Media Matters blog, Beck said, "I'm not saying that Jesus is coming, I'm just saying things are changing. The world, I mean literally, the world is moving under your feet. I mean,...
View ArticleEgyptian Blogger On Trial Mar 31: Needs Support
An Egyptian pacifist, political prisoner, and survivor of torture, Maikel Nabil Sanad, is scheduled to go on trial tomorrow, March 31, 2011, at 10 am Cairo time. What's his alleged crime? He's accused...
View ArticleIdeas to Help Us Generate Effective Blog Posts
Covering Conferences, Protests, and Social Change EventsSome tips. What blogging tips do you have? What do you think of these tips? What should be added/subtracted/edited?Originally posted to the alpha...
View ArticleGettysburg Address: Echoes of Hamilton's Federalist #1?
The subject [the Constitution] speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed,...
View ArticleTo NYT: HIV Treatment Not Impossible, It's Necessary
In this New York Times story, "Early HIV Therapy Sharply Curbs Transmission," I was brought up short by this wrenching, and morally execrable, paragraph:"Although the evidence suggests that it would be...
View ArticleNYT: Stop Confusing Sexist Violence with Sex
The problem I have with the NYT article "Questions Raised About a Code of Silence" is the same as some of the French people quoted in the article: the article itself confuses consensual sexual affairs...
View ArticleTalking Points on the School Shooting in Chardon OH
After previous school shootings, teachers in schools where I’ve worked have asked me for suggestions about how to speak with students about the topic. This memo contains some suggested topics for...
View ArticleNYT: 1st Africans in New World >100 yrs B4 1619
The NYT ran an article about the fascinating geneology of Wanda Sykes, but repeated the incorrect claim that "Africans arrived in the New World in Jamestown in 1619." A slightly expanded version of my...
View ArticleLA Times Editors Cut Impact of Killing on Combat Stress
To the LA Times credit, they published an article, "Stress of combat reaches drone crews," by David Zucchino about the impact of combat stress (Post-Traumatic stress) on the Air Force pilots who are...
View ArticleWhen White Firemen Refused to Attack Civil Rights Demonstrators: May 5, 1963
Fifty years ago, the notorious Bull Connor ordered white firemen to turn their high pressure firehoses on the demonstrators once again. But this time, on this day, they refused. How did this happen?
View ArticleOppose FB Page: "Soldiers Deserve to Die - They're Murderers"
There's a Facebook page entitled, appallingly, "Soldiers Deserve to Die - They're Murderers."What follows is a revised and expanded version of a comment I posted on that putatively anti-militarist...
View ArticleSchool Shootings: Talking Points for Teachers & Parents
With a heavy heart, I've re-written this too many times for too many school shootings, and I'll rewrite it soon to help teachers and parent respond specifically for the shootings at Sandy Hook...
View ArticleA Very Equal Rights Amendment (VERA)
Today is the anniversary of Congress approving the Bill of Rights in 1789. Facing History and Ourselvesasked us what we would include in our own Bill of Rights. This got me thinking.Let's introduce...
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