If there were lobbyists in the 18th century, would there be a provision in...
… to restrict their activities? David Cay Johnston doesn’t say that, but on reading his essay, I was thinking that. The corporations that occupy Congress won’t tell you anything you weren’t already...
View Article#occupy update
Things have gone south in Oakland On Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long effort to take over an empty building and transform it into a social center. Oakland...
View ArticleScott Walker RECALLED after weakening Unions, cutting their pay, and...
The Government Accountability Board in Wisconsin voted unanimously to recall Governor Scott Walker following the submission of a petition with 900,000 signatures. (Only 540,208 signatures were...
View ArticleRally against the War on Women
Some video: Watch live streaming video from nnsl at livestream.com Ashley Miller of the University of South Carolina is at about 56 minutes. Ashley is also here, interviewed by Voice of Russia about...
View ArticleAre you ready for a national school walkout?
The idea is to protest how easily school shootings seem to happen, and how our country has not reacted to this problem ever, other than sending around a lot of thoughts and prayers. You should know...
View Article#Occupy Common Sense
LA Occupy Protesters (and observers) will be forced to attend a political re-education program in which they will be forced to learn about their First Amendment rights. I am not making this up.
View ArticleForbes’ Gene Marks Needs To Check His Priv
Gene Marks, you wrote an essay for Forbes that has gotten a lot of people rather upset. People are upset because you display insensitive unchecked privilege and, essentially, you blame an entire class...
View Article#Occupy Time Magazine: Person of the Year Announced
Sometimes Time really annoys me with its person of the year. Sometimes it amuses me. This time, I think they did exactly the right thing. What do you think? Here’s the story.
View ArticleDeadly Cairo
Things aren’t over in Egypt, by a long shot. A summary from the Daily Beast: Clashes between police and protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square continued into a second day on Saturday, with 10 left dead...
View Article“The girls of Egypt are here”
Thousands of Egyptian women marched in Cairo last night in protest of treatment of female demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Their chant was: “Drag me, strip me, my brothers’ blood will cover me! Where is...
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