Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition

Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition:



"A preliminary deal has been reached between Chicago Public Schools and a group of parents who have occupied a field house at Whittier Elementary School for thirty-seven days to prevent its demolition. The Chicago Public Schools have agreed... -- Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition -- "

6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, Writer and Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams Asks "Where Is Our Outrage?"

"..Six months ago, BP’s oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the worst oil spill disaster in US history."

Anti-Gay Fervor in Uganda Tied to Right-Wing US Evangelicals

"Human rights activists in Uganda are warning that the lives of gay people are in danger after a newspaper published a front-page story featuring the names and photographs of what it called Uganda’s 100 "top" gays and lesbians alongside a yellow banner that read 'Hang Them.'  We look at the ties of the anti-gay movement in Uganda to the far-right evangelical movement here in the United States with Jeff Sharlet, author of C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.


...And he had learned the meaning of bipartisanship from the Family was that Jesus didn’t come to take sides, He came to take over."

Letters to Washington, October 20, 2010

Conversation with Fatima Bhutto, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto & granddaughter of the country's first elected President Zulfikar Bhutto. She is the author of the new book Songs of Blood and Swords.

Letters to Washington - October 20, 2010 at 10:00am

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Exclusive: British Novelist John le Carré (the pen name of David Cornwell) on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor"

Glenn Beck, Historian Emeritus

Media Matters "put together a timeline tracking [Glenn] Beck's alternate American history from the country's founding to the present day (and beyond). It's based on Beck's own mangling of history and the peculiar views of the historians and curricula he approvingly cites.

Enjoy, and be enlightened."

; )

"Kilmeade 'misspoke' about all terrorists being 'Muslims' -- twice"

"After repeatedly claiming that "[n]ot all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade "clarif[ied]" his comment and claimed that he "misspoke." In fact, Kilmeade not only made the claim at least twice in a single day, but he also questioned whether "moderate Muslims" need to prove "you're not one of them," which is in line with his history of bigoted and anti-Muslim statements."

"Math is hard: Dumbest Man on the Internet @gatewaypundit, CNS News make argument based on fabricated economic claim"

"Not only is this not an apples-to-apples comparison, it's not even apples to oranges. It's more like comparing an abacus to an iPhone. That's why the points made by Hoft, CNS, and Powers are meaningless."

TANF benefits are still small and shrinking even more. http://www.offthechartsblog.org/tanf-benefits-small-and-shrinking/