After Ferguson, american cities consider new body cams for police
Via MSNBC today: Two major U.S. cities announced Thursday that they are moving forward with efforts to arm police with body cameras, to improve accountability and transparency. The announcements come...
View ArticleNew York Times: Texas judge strikes down abortion rule
Via New York Times 20 min ago.. A federal judge in Austin, Tex., blocked a stringent new rule on Friday that would have forced more than half of the state’s remaining abortion clinics to close, the...
View ArticleTed Cruz: yesterdays Texas abortion decision a ‘real war on women’
This week we have many right-wing U.S. Senators like Ted Cruz (R-TX) saying stuff: Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, called a federal judge’s Friday decision to strike down stricter medical regulations...
View Article(Ferguson Update) Ferguson protesters call for mass civil disobedience on...
Via New York Times 1hr ago.. Activists on Saturday called for mass civil disobedience on the highways in and around this St. Louis suburb to protest the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white...
View ArticleDemocratic Party to use Ferguson protests to mobilize black voters in 2014...
The New York Times has an article about the Democratic Party's relationship with the ongoing civil rights protests in Ferguson: With their Senate majority imperiled, Democrats are trying to mobilize...
View ArticleSt Louis Post: Ferguson police now wearing body cameras
Via St Louis Post 30min ago.. Police officers here began wearing body cameras on Saturday as marchers took to the streets in the most recent protest of a shooting three weeks earlier by a city officer...
View ArticleNew York Times: Fast Food Workers plan mass civil disobedience in 150 cities...
Via today's New York Times: The next round of strikes by fast-food workers demanding higher wages is scheduled for Thursday, and this time labor organizers plan to increase the pressure by staging...
View Article(Poll) Who needs the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?
Today's Washington Post has a story about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsing a Democrat for a House seat in 2014: Congressional candidates trot out endorsements all the time. Most of them mean...
View Article(Ferguson Update) Breaking News: Justice Department to investigate Ferguson...
Via NBC News 6 minutes ago.. The Justice Department intends to launch a civil rights investigation of the entire Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department, according to administration officials. An...
View ArticleNew York Times: Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate "racial...
Via New York Times this afternoon: The Justice Department’s civil rights investigation into the police department in Ferguson, Mo., will focus on whether officers there made discriminatory traffic...
View ArticleSupport NFL Cheerleaders fight for a Living Wage!
National Football League cheerleaders are right now fighting for a living wage: With the National Football League set to kick off its season in earnest Sunday, four of the league's 32 teams are...
View Article(Ferguson Update) Breaking News: 2 new witnesses step forward, say Brown had...
Breaking news via St Louis Post: there were two outsiders who happened to be working outside at the apartment complex on Aug. 9 — two men from a company in Jefferson County — who heard a single...
View ArticleHenry Kissinger: "I consider Iran a bigger problem than ISIS"
I just got this tip from Hufpo, but here is todays NPR interview with Kissinger: I consider Iran a bigger problem than ISIS. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they...
View ArticleCBS News: George W Bush reveals former prez Bill Clinton as (unofficial)...
Via CBS News this morning: Former President Bill Clinton admitted Monday that although he didn't always agree with former President George W. Bush's decisions during the latter's presidency, the two...
View Article(Ferguson Update) Washington Post: Ferguson community renews calls for arrest...
Via Washington Post 1 hr ago: The parents and supporters of the 18-year-old killed in a fatal police shooting in suburban St. Louis are renewing their calls for the officer’s immediate arrest. Michael...
View ArticleWarren wants hearings: Secret recordings show Federal Reserve in bed with...
Explosive new secret recordings of Federal Reserve regulators in bed with Goldman Sachs has Senator Elizabeth Warren irate and demanding a federal probe into this close, and special, Wall...
View ArticleFerguson Police defy Justice Department on Name Tags
The Ferguson Police Department is still breaking their own rules it seems. Via Slate today: Per a Department of Justice letter sent to Ferguson police on Tuesday, Ferguson officers are in fact required...
View ArticleDear Nancy Pelosi..
hey, can you have someone attach the worker aid part of the TPP to a piece of gun control legislation please. seriously. i think prez would be down with that in light of today: Democratic senator Ron...
View ArticleActivist Bree Newsome speaks about being an activist..
Activist Bree Newsome speaks about her iconic removal of the confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol: I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my...
View ArticlePublic calls for removal of racist confederate monument in Seattle..
A Confederate monument in Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery is in the spotlight as a local group calls for its removal. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal...
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