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Citrus Disease With No Cure Is Ravaging Florida Groves
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/disease-threatens-floridas-citrus-industry.html By LIZETTE ALVAREZ Published: May 9, 2013 AVON PARK, Fla. — Florida’s citrus industry is...
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Fast Food Strike Wave Spreads to Detroit
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174270/fast-food-strike-wave-spreads-detroit Josh Eidelson on May 10, 2013 Hundreds of Detroit fast food workers plan to walk off the job beginning at 6...
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Obama Did It for the Money
From Truth Dig: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obama_did_it_for_the_money_20130507/ By Robert Scheer on May 7, 2013 The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that...
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Elizabeth Warren: Students should get the same loan rate as big banks
From Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/08/1207734/-Elizabeth-Warren-Students-should-get-the-same-loan-rate-as-big-nbsp-banks Joan McCarter Wed May 08, 2013 Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
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Sexual Assaults in Military Raise Alarm in Washington
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/pentagon-study-sees-sharp-rise-in-sexual-assaults.html?hp&_r=0 By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: May 7, 2013 WASHINGTON — The...
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Judge blasts Obama administration request for a stay to his Plan B as...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/10/judge-blasts-obama-administration-request-for-a-stay-to-his-plan-b-as-alternative-reality/ By Megan Carpentier Friday, May 10, 2013 Judge Edward...
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Marriage Equality Victories Show How Change Happens, One Step at a Time
From Yes Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/love-and-the-apocalypse/find-the-open-checkerboard-squares Before 2004, no state allowed same-sex marriage. Today, it’s legal in 11 states and the...
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Mother’s Day For the Childless By Choice
I never wanted to have a child. I never wanted to give birth or felt cursed because being transsexual meant I wouldn’t be able to bear a child. I never regretted not having parented a child either...
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The American Dream Is Dead; Long Live the New Dream
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/news/item/16291-the-american-dream-is-dead-long-live-the-new-dream By Cliff DuRand Friday, 10 May 2013 The American Dream of upward mobility is dead, thanks to the...
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Conservatives’ Misread of Keynes Reveals Unconscious Bias
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/05/09/op-ed-conservatives-misread-keynes-reveals-unconscious-bias A backhanded insult to gays and revered economist John Maynard Keynes...
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Breaking Down This Week’s Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/labor/breaking-down-weeks-fast-food-strikes-st-louis-and-detroit The new labor movement spreads to two Midwestern cities. May 10, 2013 A new movement of fast...
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End of Capitalism as We Know It? Might Be Closer Than We Think.
From The Big Slice: http://thebigslice.org/end-of-capitalism-as-we-know-it-might-be-closer-than-we-think/ Robert De Filippis May 6, 2013 Is our economic model sustainable? 88 percent of our national...
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The Death of Truth
From Truth Dig: http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/the_death_of_truth_20130505/ By Chris Hedges May. 6, 2013 LONDON—A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies...
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How San Francisco Pride Has Failed Bradley Manning
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/05/10/op-ed-how-san-francisco-pride-has-failed-bradley-manning Writer Victoria A. Brownworth believes San Francisco Pride’s messy grand...
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Fallon Fox: A Pioneer, Reluctantly
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/sports/for-transgender-fighter-fallon-fox-there-is-solace-in-the-cage.html?hp&_r=0 By GREG BISHOP Published: May 10, 2013 SCHAUMBURG,...
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Occupy Mother’s Day
From Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/05/mothers_day_criticism_we_re_doing_mothers_day_all_wrong.single.html Today’s Mother’s Day is a grotesque perversion of the original...
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