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Georgia Green Party Set to Contest 2010 Elections on Issue of Black Mass Incarceration
OntheWilderSide —
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At a recent strategic planning retreat in Dublin Georgia, members of the Georgia Green Party’s state committee agreed in principal to make challenging public policies which have created Black Mass Incarceration, a focus of its 2010 candidate recruitment efforts.Bruce Dixon, an incoming member of the Georgia ...20 hours ago -
The Surge We Need At Home
The LA Progressive —
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merica is a mess. Unemployment is over 10 percent, while the effective unemployment rate—which also includes the underemployed—is more like 19.2 percent. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]1 day ago -
Anti-Immigrant Group Withdraws Support For Lou Dobbs: He Has ‘Deeply Offended His Base’
Think Progress —
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The anti-immigrant group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) announced today that it’s dropping its support for former CNN anchor and xenophobe champion Lou Dobbs. The group is also disabling its website, www.LouDobbsforPresident.org and its Facebook page, “Draft Lou Dobbs for President or US ...1 day ago -
Worrisome Thoughts on the Way to the Jobs Summit
The LA Progressive —
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But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural change in the economy thats been going on for years but which the Great Recession has dramatically accelerated. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]2 days ago -
Our tax-cut legacy
Growth & Justice Blog —
Authority: 104
Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson got some laughs at the capitol press conference today with a Freudian slip, saying the "the recovery is over, which he corrected to "the recession is over. Hanson and State Economist Tom Stinson went on in rather somber tones to explain that the recovery will be ...2 days ago -
PROTEST OUTSIDE DEC. 3 WHITE HOUSE JOBS SUMMIT
Action Center For Justice —
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UNEMPLOYED AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS TO DEMANDMONEY FOR JOBS NOT WARAT 12 NOON IN FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE“Fund A REAL JOBS PROGRAM instead of sending MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN!”Unemployed people, along with groups representing the homeless and the poor from Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Detroit, Providence ...3 days ago -
Read Local
Isak —
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In the current issue of The American Prospect , I have an article about how independent publishers and literary communities are borrowing strategies from the food movement in their search for support. It begins: "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buyfood and clothes." So said ...4 days ago -
In CT: Green Party panel to ask “You call that health care reform?”
OntheWilderSide —
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From a Green Party of Connecticut press release:CT Green Party will host panel on Health Care Reform: Sharp Critique of HR 3962 Brings Focus to Single Payer The Connecticut Green Party will hold a panel discussion in Middletown,CT on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 explaining the weaknesses of the legislation that ...4 days ago -
The Housing Crisis and Wall Street Shame
The LA Progressive —
Authority: 143
The $75 billion federal program designed to bribe banks to modify mortgages has been a bust. No one knows the exact number of mortgages that have been modified (that will be reported next month) but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]5 days ago -
Food for Thought on this First Sunday of Advent
Blazing Indiscretions —
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The Bush Administration called them "nutritional aid." On its front page today, the New York times reports at length on the growing number of people on food stamps and the stigma of relying on them for groceries has faded. Episcopal Cafe, however, links to another story in the Houston Chronicle about a Houston ...5 days ago -
LA Progressive: 22 to 29 November, 2009
The LA Progressive —
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Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill. But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]6 days ago -
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Rhetoric & Rockets —
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Altruism, Liberalism, Etc.Recently Ive gotten into some very interesting and sometimes intense discussions with folks whose political opinions differ from mine, including the indomitable Dr. OZMG. Unlike some of my conservative brethren, I will at least entertain the notions that a) Im not always right and b) there ...6 days ago -
Jewschool Co-Sponsors Inside the Activists’ Studio 2009 in NYC
Jewschool —
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Click here or ‘more’ below for more information and to register. Inside the Activists’ Studio Sunday, December 6th Join us to learn from and be energized by local Jewish change-makers and to celebrate the multitude of ways we are collectively working to create a more just and equitable world. PANEL ...6 days ago -
No No Keshagesh - Buffy sings again
Byzigenous Buddhapalian —
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Ghost Dancers Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has a new album, Running for the Drum . She has not stopped singing for justice. Here is "No No Keshagesh." As I read at Meteor Blades post : The lead song is called "No No Keshagesh." In her native tongue, Keshagesh means "greedy guts." "Its what you ...1 week ago -
Take Action to Help Farm Workers: Join the Student/Farmworker Campaign to End the Harvest of Shame
The Political Bridge —
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From the Student/Farmworker Alliance The Student/Farmworker Alliance, in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), is calling on food service industry leaders Aramark and Sodexo to do their part to end the exploitation of farmworkers in their supply chains! Add your voice to this call today by ...1 week ago -
2008 Video on U.S. Senate Hearing into Treatment of Farm Workers in Florida
The Political Bridge —
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The Ghosts of Thanksgiving 1960: Pax Americana and the Harvest of Shame
The Political Bridge —
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Thanksgiving Weekend 1960 was the best of times for most of America, which was about to enter a glamorous new frontier. Pax Americana was everlasting. We were, undeniably, the supreme military power on earth, with the capacity to bomb any country from here to eternity. Few Americans were ...1 week ago -
Thanksgiving meal (and afternoon food share) in Long Island
OntheWilderSide —
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-Thanksgiving Lunch in FarmingvilleThursday, November 26th at 11amFacebook event page:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=346896860432 -Farmingville Food ShareThursday, November 26th at 6:30pm__________________________________________The list of events and ways to help as described below is not all-inclusive. Please ...1 week ago -
The Church and the exploitation of natural resources
Caritas Internationalis —
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We, members of the Catholic Justice and Peace and Caritas Commissions from Zambia, DR Congo, Uganda, Honduras, Norway, with representation from Caritas Africa Regional Secretariat and Catholic Relief Services, met in the mining town of Chingola, Zambia on 10 -14 November 2009, to discuss the role of the Church in ...1 week ago -
Retail Wars, Urban Sores: A New Jobs Project
The LA Progressive —
Authority: 143
If we can defend democracy overseas we can rebuild our decaying Main Streets. This could be a building stimulus project both political parties could respect if we see it as a restoration after a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]1 week ago
