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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 14:00:55 +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 14:00:58 +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 14:00:45 +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 14:00:20 +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 14:00:14 +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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Corporate Media: All the News that Suits the Suits

Tom Hall — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:13 +0000

Tom Hall: One reason that there has been so little outcry about this complete abandonment of the capitalist ideals of the Reagan years is that there is no longer any press competition in the United...

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Righting the Moral Wrongs of Immigration Reform

David A. Love — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:03 +0000

David A. Love: The Tea Party movement, a twenty-first-century incarnation of the angry white mob—with corporate backing no less—exploits the fear of the foreigner. They and their cohorts in the...

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Black Motherhood Lost at the Oscars

Rev. Irene Monroe — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:23 +0000

Rev. Irene Monroe: The historical legacy of the devaluation and demonization of black motherhood was both applauded and rewarded at this year's Oscars. And the point was clearly illustrated with...

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California Fair Elections Kickoff

Wendy Block — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:12 +0000

Wendy Block: It's impossible to eliminate money from politics, and there's no reason to. But release candidates from huge campaign contributors and the special favors that follow victory, and you'll...

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Broken Senate Breaks Dreams

Mario Solis-Marich — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:05 +0000

Mario Solis-Marich: There are well over 1 million children in this country without documentation. These young undocumented adults hold great promise for our country's future, and yet even at this...

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Haiti Recovery: “We Can Grow Our Own Chickens”

Georgianne Nienaber — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:15:48 +0000

Georgianne Nienaber: Regine Simon-Barjon, speaking for the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce as the CEO of Biotek Solutions did, and she courageously faced off against a room full of companies,...

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Bail Out Our Schools

Robert Reich — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:54 +0000

Robert Reich: Any day now, the Obama administration will announce $4.35 billion in extra federal funds for under-performing public schools. That’s fine, but relative to the financial squeeze all the...

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Time to Mobilize on State Budget Reform

Paul Hogarth — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:33 +0000

Paul Hogarth: If we can’t get a simple majority for raising taxes in the legislature, we can still put AB 656 on the ballot – while in the meantime get a simple majority for passing the budget. It’s...

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Oscar Ceremony Shows Hollywood’s Rightward, Militaristic Shift

Randy Shaw — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:16 +0000

Randy Shaw: While conservatives love bashing “Hollywood liberals,” Sunday night’s Oscar telecast showed how little this description applies. From Kathryn Bigelow’s promoting George W. Bush’s argument...

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