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Black Female Voices
A conversation with bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry about race, black womanhood, politics, media, and love. bell hooks (née Gloria...
Members of Congress Introduce a New Fix for the Voting Rights Act
Today Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA....
If You Thought NAFTA Was Bad, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new "free trade" agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. Like other Free Trade Agreements (remember NAFTA?), this one is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and financial...
Kochs flood airwaves with anti-Obamacare ads
by Joan McCarter Since September, Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for their support of the Affordable...
“Forward together, not one step back!”
“A MOVEMENT, not a Moment!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbeTp44NTY&list=UUeBaVCo1Abl6J-g5E1x080w&feature=share If you believe that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, if you understand that what happens in North Carolina has...
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress (via Techdirt) With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as "trade promotion authority") in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its constitutionally-granted sole...
The $17 Trillion Delusion
The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Debt By Marty Wolfson Shortly after the ceiling on federal debt was raised on October 17, 2013, the conservative Heritage Foundation notified its readers that the outstanding debt of the United States had...
Deeds set to introduce mental health bills
Explains how system failed his son, Gus By Anne Adams HOT SPRINGS — The loss is crushing. A 24-year-old with everything to gain thanks to his multiple talents, Gus Deeds was cherished by his friends and family; he touched everyone around him. “He could have written...
Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
by Joshua Holland The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations enacted in the public interest. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Back in 1986, when the leaders...
Jennifer Wexton for State Senate
Jobs & the Economy: The legislature needs to spend more time focused on improving our economy and less time on ideological pursuits and divisive social issues. We need to...
