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The General Assembly belongs to the people, not the powerful

By On February 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

HKonJ: Big March in Raleigh Tomorrow
Historic Thousands on Jones Street, aka HKonJ, is tomorrow. Check out this video of Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President of the North Carolina State NAACP.

From the HKonJ website:

HKonJ: The People’s General Assembly

In order to make substantial and progressive change [...]

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Criticize Congress go to jail?

By On January 18, 2007 · 1 Comment

All the presidential campaigns better look into this ASAP.
Update: Read Was I duped by Astroturf?.

Congress to Send Critics to Jail, Says Richard Viguerie

MANASSAS, Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a statement by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of GrassrootsFreedom.com,
regarding legislation currently being considered by Congress to regulate [...]

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End our dependancy on Oil

By On January 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good reason not to have permanent military bases in Iraq, besides the prevention of more needless death, is to help mitigate the United States dependency on oil. The Bush administration, and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle, want the US to stay in Iraq to secure Middle East oil all [...]

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Bankers swindle over America

By On November 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

A interesting movie called America: Freedom to fascism. 1 hr 49 min 28 sec – Oct 20, 2006

Determined to find the law that requires Americans to pay income tax, Aaron Russo (THE ROSE, TRADING PLACES) sets out on a journey. Neither left- nor right-wing, this startling examination exposes the systematic [...]

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Bush admits secret prisons exist!

By On September 7, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Impeach Bush! Throw Rumsfeld in jail!

President Bush, calling on Congress to quickly authorize trials of suspected terrorists by military tribunals, acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the Central Intelligence Agency has subjected dozens of detainees to “tough” interrogation at secret prisons abroad and said the remaining 14 have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay, [...]

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There aren’t just “A few bad Apples”

By On August 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment

An amazing bit of investigative journalism from by Martha Mendoza of the AP titled Military Recruiters Cited for Misconduct.

More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and [...]

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