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Creating Community in LA: A Safety Net for Singers

Michael Sigman — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:54 +0000

Michael Sigman: Community can be created in many ways -- geographically, electronically, or around a shared interest or cause. The community of singers which has formed around SOS and its sister...

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Costs of War to Climb as Congress Votes to Continue Military Occupation

Tracy Emblem — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:39 +0000

Tracy Emblem: There has been no real plan explained to the American public for an exit strategy in Afghanistan as mounting injuries and deaths occur and we continue to put our loved ones in harm’s...

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Israel and Palestine: The Folly of Strength and the Folly of Weakness

John Peeler — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:33 +0000

John Peeler: Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel didn’t go so well. When the Interior Ministry announced plans for a major expansion of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem just as Biden was...

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New Immigrant Rights Campaign to Mount Largest March of Obama Era

Randy Shaw — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:00:17 +0000

Randy Shaw: Organized by the Center for Community Change (CCC), the March 21 event will be the largest protest march since President Barack Obama took office. It will include activist groups from...

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Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq

Tom Hayden — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:49 +0000

Tom Hayden: Rep. Dennis Kucinich will step into the crosswinds this week and force the House of Representatives to wake up, pay attention, and vote up or down on the Afghanistan war.

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Haiti’s Fayette Villagers Forgotten at Epicenter

Georgianne Nienaber — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:32 +0000

Georgianne Nienaber: While Leogane is completely overrun with NGOs, Fayette gets visits from the occasional scientist, and the only camera lens focused on the village is aboard NASA's EO-1 satellite....

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Political Underpinnings of Film Noir

Randy Shaw — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:27 +0000

Randy Shaw: Since film noir was rediscovered in the 1960’s, there have been many books analyzing the genre. One could understandably ask what Dennis Broe’s new work, Film Noir, American Workers, and...

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Lone Star State History Books and Bumper Sticker “History”

Berry Craig — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:26 +0000

Berry Craig: Just in time for next year’s sesquicentennial observance of the start of the Civil War, the Texas Board of Education apparently wants new Lone Star State history books that favorably...

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Haiti Watch: There Are No Loaves and Fishes in This Purgatory

Georgianne Nienaber — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:24 +0000

Georgianne Nienaber: soft rain has just begun to fall, but it is a terrible event here in Petionville, Haiti. There are 5,000 people with no shelter, food, or sanitation on Highway 1, about an hour...

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How to Get Your Own News

Sharon Kyle — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:50:01 +0000

Sharon Kyle: In a book entitled, Just How Stupid Are We?, author Rick Shenkman asks, "Are America's voters prepared to shoulder the responsibility of running the most powerful nation on earth? Do a...

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LA Progressive Articles: March 7 to 14, 2010

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Articles from Dick Price, Bob Letcher, Tim Gatto, Ed Rampell, Anthony Asadullah Samad, Paul Loeb, Tom Hall, Tim Wise, Michelle Alexander, David A. Love, Wendy Block, Rev. Irene Monroe, Andrea Nill,...

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More than Merely Counting Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Robert Letcher — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:58 +0000

Bob Letcher: If we agree simply to total up CO2 emissions, China ends up being the world’s biggest emitter. But, if we agree to account for China’s much larger population, by ranking per capita...

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Six Degrees of Fornication: That Crazy, Kinky, Wacky Little Thing Called Sex

Ed Rampell — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:55 +0000

Ed Rampell: If the performers are under the covers and covered up in a play about sex, and the show’s not willing to show skin, it makes one wonder: why do a story about that particular topic in the...

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Black America Calling For “A Black Agenda”

Anthony Asadullah Samad — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Anthony Asadullah Samad: The President shouldn't hide behind black leadership who have access, while they sing a song, as Tavis says, "that we all don't know," namely that "the President doesn't need...

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First Solve Prison Crisis, Then Fix California’s Budget

Dick Price — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:20 +0000

Dick Price: To get a handle on the damage California’s current approach to incarceration is having on its citizens, consider this: In a recent 23-year period, California erected 23 prisons—one a...

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Haiti: Eight Weeks After the Quake and Words Fail

Georgianne Nienaber — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:00:14 +0000

Georgianne Nienaber: So, the writer does what writers do and steps back, walking alone and searching for vowels and consonants that might describe what is unseen and impossible to understand. Then...

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Friday Feedback: Illegal Immigration Enemy of All Workers

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:00:09 +0000

Friday Feedback: Illegal immigration is the enemy of all workers, regardless of color. An open border and an endlessly enlarging pool of labor brings the value of all labor down. One of the many...

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How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

Michelle Alexander — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:55 +0000

Michelle Alexander: The uncomfortable truth, however, is that crime rates do not explain the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African Americans during the past 30 years. Crime rates have...

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How Democrats Can Reclaim the Youth Vote

Paul Rogat Loeb — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:16 +0000

Paul Loeb: Dashed hopes also matter. Politics may be the art of compromise, but from health care to Guantanamo to Afghanistan and the bank bailouts, the compromises of the Obama administration have...

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Racism and the Myth of a “Victim Mentality”

Tim Wise — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:15 +0000

Tim Wise: It's a common argument, made by those who would rather ignore or finesse the problem of racism in America. If you can't argue the facts, never fear, just suggest that certain facts are too...

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