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The Sotomayor Nomination : Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy
Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy Her comment was simply a truism: identity shapes experience, which then informs perceptions. Identity provides a lens through which one then observes reality. By Tim Wise / June 1, 2009 For a group that regularly decries … Continue reading
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Movement Lawyer Dead in Plane Crash
Attorney Susan Jordan, shown here in her Oakland office in 1999, was killed Friday in a plane crash in southern Utah. Photo: John Burgess/The Press Democrat. Susan Jordan defended the Rag‘s own Marilyn Buck. Susan Jordan, Criminal Justice Defense Lawyer … Continue reading
Rules Bar Non-Profit News Media from Congress
The House of Representatives Press Gallery. Photo: Source.Capitol Improvement: If nonprofits are supposed to save journalism, why aren’t their reporters allowed into congressional press galleries?By Megan Tady / June 2, 2009 An outdated congressional rule effectively excludes nonprofit news organizations … Continue reading
BOOKS / Bob Zellner’s ‘The Wrong Side of Murder Creek’
If you want a taste of what life on the front lines was like in the Southern civil rights movement, you have to read this book. By Jo Freeman [The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the … Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly and ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’
Excerpts from Bill O’Reilly’s attacks on murdered physician George Tiller.O’Reilly’s campaign against murdered doctor The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a ‘baby killer,’ and warned of ‘Judgment Day’ By Gabriel Winant / May 31, … Continue reading
Chavez: ‘When the Working Class Roars, the Capitalists Tremble’
Photo: AFP/Getty Images.Venezuela: ‘When the working class roars, capitalists tremble’By Federico Fuentes / May 30, 2009 Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President … Continue reading
Obama, the Anti-War Movement and the Neo-Cons: Turning the Ship Around
“Warship 53.” Photo from sailsarana.com Obama’s agenda of ‘turning the battleship’ is not our agenda of disarming it altogether: ending U.S. interventionism and bullying of all sorts, initiating an era of peaceful global cooperation to tackle poverty, disease, global warming … Continue reading
Singin’ on Sunday – Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White – Rainy Night In Georgia Source / De Laaste Show TV1 Thanks to Deva Wood / The Rag Blog
Unions: The ‘Risk’ of Secret Ballot Elections
Randel K. Johnson of the United States Chamber of Commerce.U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Betting Against the American Middle ClassBy Leo Gerard / May 26, 2009 Randel K. Johnson, vice president of that esteemed group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently … Continue reading
Report : Americans Now Support Progressive Ideas
“Public Opinion,” mixed media by Andrey Benyei.The results are in: Americans are now more closely aligned with progressive ideas than at any time in memory By Joshua Holland / May 30, 2009. On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of … Continue reading
