New Mountaintop Removal Campaign Kicks Off in Washington, DC
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/28-8 by Jeff Biggers Published on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 by Common Dreams Besieged residents living amid the fallout of the mountaintop...
View ArticleAmerica’s Top Magazines: Still Not Hiring Women
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/02/28/433972/americas-top-magazines-still-not-hiring-women/ By Alyssa Rosenberg Feb 28, 2012 Vida, an organization devoted to examination and...
View ArticleNewt’s Last Prayer: Christian Dominionists Go Gingrich
From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/166481/newts-last-prayer-christian-dominionists-go-gingrich Mariah Blake February 27, 2012 Four days after Newt Gingrich scrambled the Republican...
View ArticleCorporate Immunity Looks Likely: Supreme Court Seems Ready To Side With Shell...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/28/corporate-immunity-supreme-court-shell-kiobel-human-rights_n_1306825.html Mike Sacks Supreme Court Correspondent, Huffington Post 02/28/12...
View ArticleTell Harris Publications: Fire Vanessa Satten
From Color of Change: http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/protectgirls/?source=coc_website Please go Here and Sign the Petition: XXL Magazine has published a video of a 45-year-old rapper encouraging...
View ArticleRepublican Sen. Olympia Snowe, ENDA Co-Sponsor, Is Not Seeking Re-Election
From Metro Weekly: http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/02/breaking-republican-sen-olympi.html Posted by Chris Geidner February 28, 2012 Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) will not be seeking...
View ArticleRalph Nader: Raise the Minimum Wage
From Truth Dig: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/nader_to_occupy_help_raise_the_minimum_wage_20120227/ By Chris Hedges Posted on Feb 27, 2012 The Occupy...
View ArticleYou Are Not Ugly, So Don’t Make Those ‘Am I Ugly?’ Videos
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-cho/am-i-ugly-videos_b_1300411.html Margaret Cho 02/27/2012 You’re not ugly. Not in the least, so don’t make those videos. Take them down...
View ArticleVaginal Ultrasound Bills A Smokescreen, Say Pro-Choice Groups
From Talking Points Memo: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/vaginal_ultrasound_bills_are_a_smokescreen_say_pro_choice_groups.php?ref=f Jillian Rayfield February 29, 2012 Don’t be fooled...
View ArticleFighting breaks out in Barcelona as students protest over education cuts
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/29/fighting-barcelona-students-protest-education-cuts Fires started and windows smashed amid clashes with police on day of peaceful...
View ArticleOn Regaining a Spirit of Defiance: ‘I’m Worried Now but I Won’t Be Worried Long’
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/29 by Phil Rockstroh Published on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Common Dreams The course of action taken by the present day U.S....
View ArticleDavy Jones, Monkees’ Heartthrob, Dies at 66
I liked rock and roll and couldn’t bring myself to watch the show, but some of the Monkeys’ songs, catch pop numbers were 1960s ear worms that ate into my brain. When I heard Davy Jones died “Last...
View Article100,000,000 workers grind India to a halt in one of world’s biggest strikes ever
From Lib.com: http://libcom.org/news/100000000-workers-grind-india-halt-worlds-biggest-ever-strike-28022012 by Ramona Feb 28 2012 One of the world’s largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday...
View ArticleNaomi Klein: ‘If You Take Climate Change Seriously, You Have to Throw Out the...
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/29-4 Naomi Klein on ideological impediments to addressing climate change and how to move forward - Common Dreams staff Published on...
View ArticleThe March of Christian Dominionism 1: What Is Christian Dominionism?
From Addicting Info: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/27/christian-dominionism/ By Justin “Filthy Liberal Scum” Rosario February 27, 2012 Or “Welcome to the Theocratic States of America” Thirty...
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