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"Serious as a Heart Attack": RoseAnn DeMoro Explains How to Raise $350 Billion from Financial Transaction Tax | | AlterNet
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 2:15 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
DeMoro is championing the Robin Hood Tax, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like stocks and bonds. The money generated, which some estimate could be as much as $350 billion annually,
Stand Your Ground? Only If You're White and Male | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 11:21 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
For someone like George Zimmerman, he simply invokes it in a police interview and he's released without an investigation even though he's killed an unarmed boy simply walking down the street. For someone like Marissa Alexander--who had direct knowledge of past acts of violence …
Study: Broke Americans Are Too Poor To File For Bankruptcy, Thanks To The Pols Who Voted For 'Reform' | Crooks and Liars
Seeded on Sun May 13, 2012 11:05 AM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to be too broke to file for bankruptcy.The average cost to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, the most common form of consumer bankruptcy, is more than $1,500, according to recent research submitted to the Natio …
You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop | American Civil Liberties Union
Seeded on Sun May 6, 2012 5:30 PM EDT (No End in Sight: Immigrants Locked Up for Years Without Hearings | American Civil Liberties Union)
Know your rights and NEVER give up your camera to law enforcement!!!
Video Shows Black Teen Brutally Beaten by NYPD Officers Was Not Holding Drugs, Did Not Punch Officer | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 2:03 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
The NYPD is OUT OF CONTROL! We are so close to Kent State re-dux. It is just a matter of time before another mass murder of United States Citizens by law enforment officials. We must act together to stop this insanity NOW!!
Is the NYPD Out of Control? New Lawsuit Takes on Bloomberg's 'Private Army' | | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 12:45 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Bloomberg most likely does not even know what goes on in the NYPD. They ARE out of control and this nation needs to act in a united manner to end this nightmare.
Obama Administration Caves to Fracking Companies on Major Regulation | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat May 5, 2012 12:30 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
It's awesome that the Administration would take the time to meet with industry in order to avoid inconveniencing them as they milk our public lands for all they're worth. And then insure that industry won't have to tell us until they're done spilling chemicals, just how toxic …
Drinking Your Own Urine to Survive? Just One of the Millions of Drug War Atrocities | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 3:32 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
It's not like DEA does this sort of thing every day. But what happened to Daniel Chong is an inevitable consequence of a war on drugs that arrests and detains millions of people for drug law violations, most of them involving petty offenses. ONE IS TOO MANY!! WTF?
Federal Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Oakland Police For 'Military-Type Response' To Occupy Protests | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 2:16 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Still don't think Kent State can Happen AGAIN?
What It's Like When the NYPD Raids Your Apartment At Dawn-- Because Your Roommate is in Occupy | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 2:14 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Still don't think Kent State can Happen AGAIN?
Will a Militarized Police Force Facing Occupy Wall Street Lead to Another Kent State Massacre? | | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 2:05 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
It's getting closer and closer in Oakland and New York City. Think it can't happen again? Think twice - just look at how the Police are dressed and armed.
Moment of Clarity: 'Pigs, Bankers, and Date Rapists' | Occupy America
Seeded on Fri May 4, 2012 1:14 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)
Whether people are out there marching with Occupy or not, most of America now believes--or at least ponders the fact--that this society is entirely rigged against them. It doesn’t seem to make any rational sense.
Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders | | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:56 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
For the last two years, the number of inmates held in state prisons has declined slightly, largely because the states are short on money. Crime, of course, has declined dramatically in the last 20 years, but that has never dampened the states’ appetites for warehousing e …
Tavis Smiley Says Fight Poverty With Living-Wage Jobs | OurFuture.org
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 8:24 PM EDT (Today's Ideas & Actions | OurFuture.org)
What Smiley and West call for is a minimum wage of at least $10 an hour; the current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. The minimum wage is higher in 18 states and the District of Columbia, but the highest minimum wage in the country is $8.80 an hour, in Oregon
The Obama Team Just Doesn't Get It: US Violence and Occupation Spark Terrorism | | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu May 3, 2012 11:04 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Rather than a failure to communicate, U.S. officials are trying to rewrite recent history, which seems to be much easier to accomplish with the Washington press corps and large segments of the American population than with the Muslim world. But why isn’t there a frank d …
TIME Magazine covers TUSD ban of MAS and books! | | Three SonoransThree Sonorans
Seeded on Tue May 1, 2012 8:00 PM EDT ()
"The target of this remarkable ban was a Mexican-American studies program in the Tucson school district, which featured such books as The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years. Last month that program was shuttered, and with it, anot …
How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare | | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:52 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
"A supposedly liberal president who instead has expanded and fortified many of the Bush administration’s worst policies, lending bipartisan support for a more intrusive and authoritarian federal government." But he still remains the lesser of two evils.
Jan Brewer Signs
Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:07 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
What happened to Roe v. Wade? life begins 2 weeks before inception? Really?
Greatest Country in the World, or Biggest Joke? TN Educators Can Soon Teach Students Total Nonsense | AlterNet
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 3:21 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Their moronic governor is going to sign a new law that sounds innocuous enough: Neither the state board of education, nor any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or any public elementary or secondary sc …
Az. Official Considers Expanding Awful Ban on Ethnic Studies to Universities | AlterNet
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:57 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Racist, Xenophobic PIG. Need I say more?
Department of Justice Cuts Off Negotiations With Sheriff Joe Arpaio - COLORLINES
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:42 PM EDT ()
“Most police departments who are approached by the DOJ for these sorts of investigations engage in negotiations with the DOJ as a way of showing that they are interested in gaining back public trust. They will agree to reforms generally because their public reputations have …
After Daily Show Embarrassment, Will Disgraced Tucson School Board Member Finally Resign Tonight? (VIDEO) « SpeakEasy
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:19 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
While Hicks’ downright racist buffoonery might be entertaining–and certainly derails the spotlight from the FBI’s investigation of Attorney General Tom Horne or his extremist side-kick, Tea Party state superintendent of schools John Huppenthal–it should al …
Protesters Beware: U.S. Supreme Court Expands Invasive Strip-Searches | | AlterNet
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 2:09 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
“The Supreme Court ruling today continues a dangerous trend expanding law enforcement intrusion into our lives and our bodies, on the pretext of security, in a curtailment of fundamental Fourth Amendment rights,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and executive …
ICE Finally Gives Congress Data on Number of Parents Deported | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:41 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
"The federal government deported 46,486 parents of US-citizen children in the 6 month period between January-June 2011," said Seth Freed Wessler, Colorlines' investigation reporter who filed the Freedom of Information Act request. "The figure amounts to more than 22% of all de …
Beyond Books: Tucson School District Tries to Block Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration « SpeakEasy
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:48 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
“For over a decade, The Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Coalition has collaborated with TUSD to celebrate the life and legacy of this civil rights icon by staging the march at Pueblo High School on Tucson’s south side,” according to the released statement
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"Serious as a Heart Attack": RoseAnn DeMoro Explains How to Raise $350 Billion from Financial Transaction Tax | | AlterNetDeMoro is championing the Robin Hood Tax, a small government levy the financial sector would pay on commercial transactions like stocks and bonds. The money generated, which some estimate could be as much as $350 billion annually,
- Stand Your Ground? Only If You're White and Male | Crooks and Liars
For someone like George Zimmerman, he simply invokes it in a police interview and he's released without an investigation even though he's killed an unarmed boy simply walking down the street. For someone like Marissa Alexander--who had direct knowledge of past acts of violence …
- Study: Broke Americans Are Too Poor To File For Bankruptcy, Thanks To The Pols Who Voted For 'Reform' | Crooks and Liars
This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to be too broke to file for bankruptcy.The average cost to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, the most common form of consumer bankruptcy, is more than $1,500, according to recent research submitted to the Natio …
- You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop | American Civil Liberties Union
Know your rights and NEVER give up your camera to law enforcement!!!
- Video Shows Black Teen Brutally Beaten by NYPD Officers Was Not Holding Drugs, Did Not Punch Officer | AlterNet
The NYPD is OUT OF CONTROL! We are so close to Kent State re-dux. It is just a matter of time before another mass murder of United States Citizens by law enforment officials. We must act together to stop this insanity NOW!!
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"Serious as a Heart Attack": RoseAnn DeMoro Explains How to Raise $350 Billion from Financial Transaction Tax | | AlterNet
Stand Your Ground? Only If You're White and Male | Crooks and Liars
Study: Broke Americans Are Too Poor To File For Bankruptcy, Thanks To The Pols Who Voted For 'Reform' | Crooks and Liars
Study: Broke Americans Are Too Poor To File For Bankruptcy, Thanks To The Pols Who Voted For 'Reform' | Crooks and Liars
You Have Every Right to Photograph That Cop | American Civil Liberties Union
Video Shows Black Teen Brutally Beaten by NYPD Officers Was Not Holding Drugs, Did Not Punch Officer | AlterNet
Is the NYPD Out of Control? New Lawsuit Takes on Bloomberg's 'Private Army' | | AlterNet
Obama Administration Caves to Fracking Companies on Major Regulation | AlterNet
Drinking Your Own Urine to Survive? Just One of the Millions of Drug War Atrocities | AlterNet
Will a Militarized Police Force Facing Occupy Wall Street Lead to Another Kent State Massacre? | | AlterNet