A judge issued an injunction against the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA in front of tomorrow’s vote. Demand Progress has an email Congress page here:
http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_tmrw/
Lawsuit news here:
A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a part of the National Defense Authorization Act that opponents claim could subject them to indefinite military detention for activities including news reporting and political activism.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan today ruled in favor of a [...]
by Kamaila Sanders
You already know that Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the U.S.
However, a closer look at how users actually engage with the site has produced some surprising results.
Researchers with the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Projectconducted a national phone survey of Facebook users and just released a report on the findings.
Here are the most interesting results:
20 to 30 percent of very active Facebook users called [...]
Will Potter
Green Is the New Red
December 22, 2011
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has kept files on activists who expose animal welfare abuses on factory farms and recommended prosecuting them as terrorists, according to a new document uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act.
This new information comes as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) as unconstitutional because its vague wording has had [...]
Zen Gardner
Before Its News
December 21, 2011
Think about it. The more people who lose their homes and material wealth in this manipulated downturn, the more people who stop, think and re-evalute. The more people who realize the financial and political situation is engineered for the good of a very few and not the people, the more wake up. The more people who are directly offended by these draconian new anti-freedom laws [...]
SING YOUR SONG: Harry Belafonte (second from right). (HBO – HBO)
Singer Harry Belafonte, subject of an upcoming HBO documentary about his political activism, was asked what he would say to the White House and Congress about the gamesmanship in which they are engaged over the national debt.
“My question would be, to Congress and the president: What happened to moral truth? What happened to moral courage?” Belafonte [...]
by Atomizer
When in doubt, always go back in time.
1946 - How labor unions engaged in political activism to combat corporate influence on the U.S. Congress in the years following World War II.
http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/11/deadline-for-action-1946.html
Sadly, jobs are outsourced. End of story.
Just yesterday morning, Bill Gates was telling us that the new India millionaries now have to pay an extra % fee to the Gates foundation. Godfather Bill will maintain your India business presence [...]
For the first time in human history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive… The resulting global political activism is generating a surge in the quest for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien colonial or imperial domination…Â The worldwide yearning for human dignity is the central challenge inherent [...]
Seeking to prosper justly in ways constructive to the nation’s sustainable well-being and economic independence is a laudable ideal – an ideal that Buffett, perhaps, is forgetting. Maybe being America’s “most successful investor†has gone to his head.
All of Buffett’s end-of-life philanthropy with Bill Gates won’t be tithe or alms enough to pay for turncoat collateral damages caused by his exoneration of an ethically defective Wall Street system in the [...]
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