13 Yr Old Girl Experiences SWAT First Hand: "I Opened the Door and They're...
"I Opened the Door and They're Pointing Rifles at Me." So related a thirteen year old girl, one of the speakers at this year's Urban Shield protest in Oakland, California, describing an encounter...
View ArticleThey Will Keep Coming.
Hungary's border with Serbia slammed shut today with barbed wire, soldiers and new laws that make it illegal to cross or damage the fence. A main gateway to central Europe slammed shut Tuesday as...
View ArticlePayoffs, Politics and Perdition. Can Oakland Stop the Coal Trains and Save...
A debate that may have worldwide consequences is now taking place in Oakland. Developers are proposing to build a coal export facility on the Oakland waterfront that will receive newly mined coal from...
View ArticleThey Locked a Man Up in Macomb County Just to Watch Him Die.
If you haven't been in a cave these last days you know the story. A man with addiction problems, locked up over a traffic ticket, died over a 17 day period as video cameras watched as he suffered,...
View ArticleTo Tase or Not to Tase, That is Berkeley's Question.
Whether it is nobler to send 50,000 volts slinging through human bodies, or take arms against a sea of autistic, mentally ill, drugged, drunk, deaf, pregnant, and/or homeless people who more often than...
View ArticleCoaltastrophe or Coaldstorage.
A debate that may have worldwide consequences is now taking place in Oakland. Developers are proposing to build a coal export facility on the Oakland waterfront that will receive as yet unmined coal...
View ArticleKunduz. MSF. War Crimes. Speechless with bloody horror.
Honestly, I have nothing to add to the international outrage, other than to note the dismal fact that like the My Lai massacre, this atrocity took place during the watch of a Democratic President. This...
View ArticleTexas Judges Blatantly Ignorant of Law, Toss Poor People Into Debtors' Prisons.
Did you know the Supreme Court outlawed debtors' prisons in the United States? Did you know that Texas law requires judges to hold a hearing when someone cannot pay a fine, to assess someone's finances...
View ArticleBreaking: California Makes It Illegal to Search Your Cell Phone Without a...
BREAKING VICTORY: @JerryBrownGov signs landmark #CalECPA- stops warrantless digital surveillance!!!! #SB178#privacy— Nicole Ozer (@NicoleOzer) October 8, 2015Soon to be no longer operative:Snail mail...
View ArticleA Warrant from Hell.
Nicole Deane believes Black Lives Matter. Nicole Deane believes Prisoners Lives Matter. And on the night of May 23rd, 2015, in the streets of Oakland, she put that conviction to the test by refusing...
View ArticleRecognizing Genocide Denial Against American Indians
The extent to which a Nation denies the genocide it has committed is a measure of that Nation's social conscience. The social conscience of the United States is infected with numerous rationalizations...
View ArticleWar is not the solution. War is the problem
Of the many missed opportunities during the first Democratic Presidential debate, none were larger than the failure to challenge Hillary Clinton's description of her record regarding Libya. "“We had a...
View ArticleDing! Colorado Single-Payer Health Care Will Be on the Ballot in 2016.
It's time for the people to vote on whether to join most of the rest of the economically-advanced countries of the world in providing health care as a right. Not as a complicated bureaucracy involving...
View ArticleBlack support helps Clinton extend lead
Sen. Hillary Clinton's lead over Sen. Barack Obama, her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is growing among African-American voters who are registered Democrats, and particularly...
View ArticleHuman Interest Lending: A Radical Rethinking of the Payday Loan Industry.
Do you live paycheck to paycheck? Do you know anyone who does? More than half of Americans do, with no emergency savings and no cushion.(1) While many rely on credit cards or lines of credit to cover...
View ArticleWas DOMA Defensive or Political?
What are people who were gay activists and/or involved with the White House saying?“In 1996, I was President of the Human Rights Campaign, and there was no threat of a Federal Marriage Amendment”She...
View ArticleThe War Against MSF
So, this is United States policy now. To ignore the Geneva Conventions and murder civilians and non-combatants in their hospital beds.Disgusting.Yemeni hospital hit by Saudi-led air strike: medical...
View ArticleWhose Party is it Anyway? (updated, with poll)
Did the New York Times just give up the game? A report on Mayor de Blasio’s apparent hesitancy to endorse Hillary Clinton speaks volumes about the dysfunctional political culture that is inspiring the...
View ArticleBreaking ~ 1st MSF internal review Attack on Kunduz Trauma Centre released today
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) just released its first internal report on Oct. 3rd bombing of its Kunduz Trauma Centre that treated 68,000 emergency patients / 4 years, since August, 2011....
View Articleangel d's apartment burned down!
Living room view from the patio. Talk about shit happening! Three days ago, an ember from Kossack angel d's fireplace managed to coax the rest of her living room into burning into a fiery rage, with...
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