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• Obama/Democratic Socialists of America Ad

  
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  While connected to the US’s largest Marxist organization Democratic Socialists of America , for at least 30 years, Barack Obama can only be linked, through documentary evidence, to one DSA  sponsored event . From Buzzfeed In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was ...
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• In Quebec, massive counterpower movement of students and citizens in showdown against government

  
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  Largest protest ever recorded in Quebec history No 485 Posted by fw, May 23, 2012 “Last week, the government of Quebec enacted a dangerous bill, Bill 78, which represents a crackdown on protests, and specifically on the student strike that has been happening in the past three months in Quebec. And today about ...
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• Framing and Social Movement Slam Dunks

  
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  NPR reports that Beef Products Incorporated, the company that makes “finely textured beef” (a chemically-treated paste made from non-muscle cow parts used as a filler in ground beef), will be closing three of its production plants this month.   Dozens of food manufacturers, grocery store chains, restaurants, ...
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• Dershowitz Doubles Down on Trayvon Martin Case

  
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  By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media As part of a recent AIM Report , I wrote briefly about the release of documents last week in the George Zimmerman case. Zimmerman has been charged with second degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. But more has come out since then, and attorney Alan Dershowitz has ...
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• Politics Still Has The Power To Influence Positive Change

  
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  By Tarun Cherukuri: YES, you read that right. ‘Politics’ can go together with the word ‘positive’ instead of its infamous cousin ‘partisan’. Politics can after all be and must be a noble endeavor. It is not an argument based on bubble headed idealism. It is also not an argument based on a few ...
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• Same-Sex Marriage: Fox News Posts AP’s One-Sided Hugely-Anti-Gay Article

  
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  Fox News has published a one-sided profile of bigoted anti-gay marriage activists written by the  Associated Press , without offering any comments or input from same-sex marriage supporters. The 1400-word article, “ For gay marriage opponents, moments shape minds ,” which was widely syndicated in dozens if ...
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• Interview Denise Sullivan: “Music is history”

  
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  Last year Denise Sullivan, music journalist and online columnist for Crawdaddy!, published her fourth book titled ‘Keep on Pushing’. In this fascinating and thorough overview, Sullivan discusses the marriage of music and social change throughout the twentieth century and shows that the Black Power Movement which ...
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• New York Times LTE re NATO and the pro-peace majority

  
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  Generally speaking the pro-peace events in Chicago surrounding the NATO war summit have been very good, and we’ve been getting superb media coverage. Photos, reports etc to come soon.   Here’s my letter to the editor in yesterday’s New York Times (I believe it was only online, not in the “hard copy” of ...
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• silly social movement of the day: the anti-gaga movement

  
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  Previous silly social movements… From CNN . In response to a scheduled Lady Gaga concert in Indonesia: There has been an outcry against Lady Gaga performing among Islamists and conservative Muslims, who say her revealing costumes and sensual dance moves are “haram,” an Arabic term that means “forbidden by ...
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• Loudon: Utah and Colorado Events

  
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  I’m back in the US until mid to late June, mainly for research and fundraising, but I will be doing some talks in the North East, California, Utah and Colorado. Utah conference Rocky Mountain Conservatives 3rd Annual Convention & BBQ. Saturday, May 19, 2012. 12pm to 4pm Buy tickets here . Colorado events ...
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• Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network

  
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  The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants. Michael Christopher Brown He once was known as al-Jamil—the Handsome One—for his chiseled features and dark curls. But four decades as dictator had considerably dimmed the looks of ...
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• Queer African Reader

  
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    Queer African Reader Edited by Sokari Ekine and Hakima Abbas    A visionary work melding academia and art that breaks the mould for Queer African studies  Unique in presenting the voices of LGBTI Africans  Groundbreaking in both scope and content, it encompasses voices from across the African content   ...
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• Fastest Growing and Declining Occupations, 1983-2002

  
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  The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released a paper by  Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood about unionization in the U.S.. They argue that economic shifts that changed the relative prevalence of different types of occupations partially explain decreasing union membership. So what occupations are ...
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• Fastest Growing and Declining Occupations, 1983-2002

  
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  The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released a paper by  Emin Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood about unionization in the U.S.. They argue that economic shifts that changed the relative prevalence of different types of occupations partially explain decreasing union membership.So what occupations are ...
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• Communists in Congress? (1) Hansen Clarke (D) Michigan

  
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  Recently Florida rep. Allen West received considerable flak after claiming that there were up to eighty “communists” in the US Congress. Rep. West was certainly correct in spirit. There are dozens of members of the US Congress who have strong ties to one or more of Ameica’s several influential marxist ...
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• Nigel Farage: Euro MP Predicts Civil Unrest, Even Revolution in Europe

  
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• Will Gay Marriage Endorsement Mean Campaign Dollars for Obama?

  
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  Obama endorses same-sex marriage. Will that reverse the downward trend line in his contributions from those connected to gay rights interest groups? Will Gay Marriage Endorsement Mean Campaign Dollars for Obama? is a post from: Government in The Lab
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• Club of Rome Still Pushing “Global Warning” Scam

  
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  While the world seems to be cooling, the appallingly dishonest Club of Rome is still shamelessly pushing “Global Warming” lies. From Moscow propaganda channel Russia Today Rising carbon dioxide levels will most likely cause the global average temperature to rise two degrees by 2052, the Club of Rome ...
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• New York Times Bows to Terrorism

  
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  By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Speaking at the April 25 New York Times annual meeting, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company, tried to justify the rejection of an ad calling attention to the alleged oppressive nature of the Islamic religion and the “vengeful, hateful and ...
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• Occupy DC’s Muddled May Day Rally

  
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  Hat Tip: Logan Churchwell Accuracy in Media : Accuracy in Media’s Brigette Namata covered the May Day march, protest and all around party in Washington, D.C. AIM found that the local Occupy group has yet to decide upon demands, goals or a general purpose. http://www.aim.org
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