April 2012
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“Contrary to right-wing propaganda, decent pay for workers helps the economy and...”
– Minimum-wage misconceptions - Salon.com (via sarahlee310)
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Another way to kill US farmers: Seize their bank... →
leftish:
23Apr2012
By Rady Ananda Food Freedom News
Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention.
Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers under the post-911...
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“Today, 400 individuals have as much wealth as an entire HALF of America.”
– The Middle Class Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s Just Sliding Toward the Bottom (via azspot)
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Random Acts of Chaos: Parents Lose Custody of... →
helvetebrann:
After 16-year-old Austin Sprout lost his life when his parents, Brandi and Russel Bellew, opted for prayer instead of medical treatment, their remaining six children are now wards of the state, the Register-Guard reports.
Brian Sprout, Austin Sprout’s father and Brandi…
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Test turns to humiliation for kindergartner →
breanieswordvomit:
WASHBURN, Mo. — A mother is upset over over a classroom incident that left her kindergartner embarrassed. A 6-year-old girl had an accident in her classroom, and her parents are pushing for policy changes.
“They told me that the teacher had asked her to go to the restroom before testing time,” said mother Lisa Skidmore.
Skidmore says asking a young child to go to the...
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Read This, Not That: Monday Evening Roundup →
rtnt:
Four must-reads and one must-watch from the last several weeks of Read This, Not That.
1. How Billionaires Pick America’s Candidates In one of the best pieces on the topic, Thomas Frank writes in Harper’s about Citizens United and the consequences of unlimited political contributions…
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Sisyphean Revolt: The U.S. Has Nearly 5x More... →
bbthity:
Wired has the story:
The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color….
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Teen Pregnancies Highest In States With... →
stfuconservatives:
A new report says that although national teen pregnancy rates are the lowest they’ve ever been (or at least since they started tracking them in 1940), states that have abstinence-only sex “education” have higher rates than states where schools teach you about condoms and stuff.
Can we just declare abstinence-only education a failure and a sham and be done with it?
-Jess
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“White America wants to pretend that it didn’t create the conditions in which...”
– Jesse Curtis (via azspot)
Instead of praying and hoping, lets get to work.
(via anirishginger)
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Howard Morgan, Off-Duty Black Cop Shot 28 Times By... →
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Watchcaliforniawatch:
Roughly 1.8 million people live in low-income unincorporated communities in California. These communities are outside of recognized city boundaries and therefore lack many public services, including sewer systems and clean water. California Watch reporter Bernice Yeung visited several of these communities across the state and spoke to residents about the challenges they face.
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Florida. How Soon We Forget. - NYTimes.com →
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
In a report documenting its comprehensive investigation of the 2000 election, the United States Commission on Civil Rights found that approximately 11 percent of Florida voters in 2000 were African-American; yet African-Americans cast more than half of the 180,000 rejected ballots. The commission found that “statistical data, reinforced by credible anecdotal...
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France best, U.S. worst in preventable death... →
France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday.
Researchers Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective...
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CU-Boulder announces new 4/20 crackdown, plans to... →
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“For example, take Charles and David Koch, who have spent “hundreds of millions...”
– A brilliant contribution to the public debate about politics and the economy (via azspot)
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FACT: In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on...
stfuconservatives:
think-progress:
California has built just one college campus since 1980, but it’s created 21 prisons.
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Amnesty International accuses Arizona of abuse in... →
The group found that some inmates are held in isolation for months and sometimes years, and it called on the state to use the practice only as a last resort and only for a short duration.
In addition, it asked that the practice not be used against children or people who are mentally ill or have behavioral disabilities. The group also called on state officials to improve conditions for prisoners...
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The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth... →
Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but they can be counted on one hand. Racial caste is alive and well in America.
Most people don’t like it when I say this. It makes them angry. In the “era of colorblindness” there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we as a nation have “moved beyond” race. Here are a few facts that run counter to that triumphant racial...
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Detroit High School Students Stage Walk Out: 50... →
stfuconservatives:
At Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit, students are complaining that they are being given a sub-par education that will hurt them as they move onto college. One student said he was given an A in a class where the teacher had been absent for 68 days and the class hadn’t even taken a final exam. OK, yeah, as a high schooler, that sounds pretty ideal (no class, no teacher, no...
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“When people choose not to buy broccoli, they don’t make broccoli unavailable to...”
– Paul Krugman, “Broccoli and Bad Faith” (via ryking)
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(via underthemountainbunker)
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Police Routinely Track Phones, Usually With Little... →
wisconsinforward:
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small, often using it aggressively with little or no court oversight, documents show.
The practice has become big business for cellphone companies, too, with a handful of...
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