How Students Are Painting Montreal Red</h1> <article> <h1>How Students Are Painting Montreal Red</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:43:26 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Zoltán Glück </div> <div class="field-item even"> Manissa McCleave Maharawal </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>On Wednesday night in Montreal, we shared a long dinner with student organizers, discussing everything from police tactics in Montreal and New York to the necessity of an anti-racist and anti-colonial framework for our movements. Our hosts noticed that, around the time that the nightly 8:30 p.m. march was supposed to begin, we were getting nervous about missing it.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-7" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Immigrants and Birth Certificates</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:27:59 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Christopher Brauchli </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><blockquote> <p><em>Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.</em>— Henry Brooks Adams, <em>The Education of Henry Adams</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Two bits of bad news to dampen any cheer earlier reports might have warranted. It is accompanied by one bit of good news. The bad news comes from Alabama and Iowa. The good news comes from Arizona, a state normally known as a bellwether for bad news.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-6" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>American Rage Over Punishment of Pakistani Doctor Reveals Much</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:18:00 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Glenn Greenwald </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>Americans of all types — <a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/05/ap-senate-panel-cuts-pakistan-aid-after-doctors-conviction-shakil-afridi-052412/">Democrats and Republicans</a>, even <a href="http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/05/pakistan">some Good Progressives</a> — are just livid that a Pakistani tribal court (reportedly in consultation with Pakistani officials) has <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/23/153362441/33-years-in-prison-for-pakistani-doctor-who-aided-hunt-for-bin-laden">imposed</a> a 33-year prison sentence on Shakil Afridi, the Paki</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-5" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Answers Sought From Scott Walker Amid New Evidence of Lying to Congress</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:51:42 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> John Nichols </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>There is no longer any question that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/168008/members-congress-want-know-did-scott-walker-lie-under-oath">Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s sworn testimony before Congress has been contradicted</a> by videotaped evidence of the controversial governor discussing with his top campaign donor a “divide and conquer” political scheme to undermine organized labor and make Wisconsin “a completely red state.”</div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-4" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Well, Why Shouldn't Poor White Voters Reject Democrats?</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:02:09 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Gary Younge </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>So white people who are struggling financially are going to vote Republican. And not by a narrow margin. Asked in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-holds-key-advantages-among-financially-struggling-white-voters/2012/05/24/gJQACxPgoU_story.html" title="">a recent Washington Post poll</a> which candidate would do more to advance their families' economic interests, middle-class white voters who said they were struggling to maintain their financial positions chose Mitt Romney. And not by a small margin.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-3" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>The Export of Weapons: Past, Present and Future</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:55:51 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Renee Parsons </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>As long overdue negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) begin in early July <a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/ATTPrepCom/" target="_hplink">under UN auspices</a>, central to that discussion, by virtue of its international supremacy, will be the US export of arms that has facilitated the extensive sale of weapons around the planet.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-2" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>How the Post Office Is Being Destroyed By a Phony Budget Crisis</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:41:38 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> David Morris </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>As every 6 year old learns, there is real and there is make believe.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-1" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:34:00 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Gar Alperovitz </div> <div class="field-item even"> Thomas Hanna </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>It’s time to put the taboo subject of public ownership back on the progressive agenda. It is the only way to solve some of the most serious problems facing the nation. We contend that it is possible not only to talk about this once forbidden subject but to begin to build a serious politics that can do what needs to be done in key sectors.<span class="image-full" style="width: 540px"><span class="caption">(Image: Emily Flake)</span></span></p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26-0" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Doh! Romney Messes Up, Tells the Truth About Austerity</h1> <p>jon — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:19:41 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> William K. Black </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>Mitt Romney has periodic breakdowns when asked questions about the economy because he sometimes forgets the need to lie. He forgets that he is supposed to treat austerity as the epitome of economic wisdom. When he responds quickly to questions about austerity he slips into default mode and speaks the truth -- adopting austerity during the recovery from a Great Recession would (as in Europe) throw the nation back into recession or depression.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/26" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>US Public School System is Under Attack</h1> <p>jon — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:29:28 +0000</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-op-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Liza Featherstone </div> </div> </div> <div class='node-body'><p>The US public school system, once a model for the world, is under sustained attack by the nation's elites. Philadelphia, the latest casualty, is getting ready to sell off its schools - and their governance - to profiteers and snake-oil salesmen. We already know how this story ends.<span class="image-right" style="width: 350px"><span class="caption">Students protest school closings outside district headquarters in Philadelphia. (Photo: philly.com)</span></span></p></div><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/25-7" target="_blank">read more</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>