No Justice for Trayvon Martin
I’m stunned. I actually expected a man slaughter verdict rather than a murder verdict given the circumstances. I did not expect a full acquittal. It shows how the last 35 years of racist über Reich...
View ArticleWhite Supremacy Acquits George Zimmerman
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/blog/175260/white-supremacy-acquits-george-zimmerman#axzz2YzgoZOmE Aura Bogado on July 14, 2013 A jury has found George Zimmerman not guilty of all charges in...
View ArticlePRESS STATEMENT from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Response to Verdict...
From The Southern Poverty Law Center: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/press-statement-from-the-southern-poverty-law-center-in-response-to-verdict-in-sta 07/13/2013 The following statement...
View ArticleThe Internet’s destroying work — and turning the old middle class into the...
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/12/the_new_proletariat_workers_of_the_cloud/ The new economy is turning human labor into just another computer process — and will keep wrecking jobs By Andrew...
View ArticleSecrets Exposed: How the NSA Rubber-Stamps Warrentless Spying
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/14-4 by Christopher Brauchli Published on Sunday, July 14, 2013 by Common Dreams If we are to regard ourselves as a grown-up nation—and...
View ArticleWho is a journalist? Manning trial poses question of vital public interest
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2013/jul/11/who-is-journalist-bradley-manning-trial In this age of radically open networks, journalism is no longer a profession. It is a service...
View ArticleAnd Now It’s Time to Rebrand ENDA: The Freedom to Work Act
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/enda-freedom-to-work-act_b_3534606.html Michelangelo Signorile 07/02/2013 The marriage equality movement has been a success...
View ArticleTRANS PEOPLE JUST ARE. GET OVER IT.
From Last of the Clean Bohemians: http://lastofthecleanbohemians.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/trans-people-just-are-get-over-it/ Paris Lees July 2, 2013 This post is taken from a speech I made at a...
View ArticleConservatives Want To Fire Transgender People, And Not For Religious Reasons
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/07/11/2286041/conservatives-want-to-fire-transgender-people-but-not-for-religious-reasons/ By Zack Ford on Jul 11, 2013 ony Perkins at the...
View ArticleOut in the Rain
From Baltimore Out Loud: http://www.baltimoreoutloud.com/thinking-outloud/rational-t-hought/item/2030-out-in-the-rain by Sharon Brackett Friday, 12 July 2013 Pride events tend to be a mixed bag for...
View ArticleDC votes unanimously on a birth certificate amendment
From Dot 429: http://dot429.com/articles/2603-dc-votes-unanimously-on-a-birth-certificate-amendment Jane Eisner Thu, Jul 11, 2013 In a unanimous second vote, the D.C. Council passed a bill July 10...
View ArticleSea Level Rise Study Shows Each Degree Of Warming Could Bring 2.3 Meter Shift
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/sea-level-rise-study_n_3591435.html By Erik Kirschbaum 07/13/2013 BERLIN, July 15 (Reuters) – Sea levels could rise by 2.3 metres for...
View ArticleMining the World to Death
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/books/mining-world-death-end-extractiveindustrial-model Our industrial model, based on extraction, is setting us on a road to eventual collapse. By Robert Jensen...
View ArticleWhy Do Americans Live Lives So Short?
From Inequality.org: http://inequality.org/americans-live-lives-short/ To protect our health, we’ve learned to have our ‘vital signs’ taken. But no visit to a doctor’s office can tell us the vital...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Americans Fighting Back?
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17498-why-arent-americans-fighting-back By E. Douglas Kihn Monday, 15 July 2013 This is the big question, right? It’s what people are wondering...
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