Reproductive Rights Receding More Quickly for Some Women: A Review of Crow After Roe Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Crow After Roe: How Separate But Equal has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That, by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo, details statehouse setbacks in reproductive justice since Roe v. Wade. Read the Review The Wrong Men: How the DHS Failed to Prevent Terrorism Carl Gibson, Occupy.com: Russia first warned the FBI of the Boston bombing mastermind in 2011, but the FBI and Department of Homeland Security were too busy monitoring the Occupy Boston protesters instead. Read the Article Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment "Reform" Gordon Lafer, Labor Notes: When Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich collaborated to "end welfare as we know it," they made a sharp distinction between people on welfare and the unemployed. Twenty years later, the arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed. Read the Article Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism Michael A. Peters with Marianna Papastephanou, Truthout: The writers show that "cosmopolitanism" goes farther back than early modernity, and they subvert neoliberal assumptions that cosmopolitanism is simply mobility and globality. Read the Article Feds Falsely Use Specter of Terrorism to Hunt Down Black Liberation Activist Tom Hintze, AlterNet: Labeling Assata Shakur a terrorist is the latest attempt by the government to rewrite the history of radical activists. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Labor Is Dealt Two New Blows, and More In today's On the News segment: Thursday, two separate events illustrated just how extreme the war on labor has become; climate change deniers continue to encourage the destruction of our environment; Pope Francis condemned the world's "cult of money" for oppressing the poor; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Congressmen Pocan and Ellison Introduce "Right to Vote" Constitutional Amendment Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: The Pocan/Ellison proposal would guarantee the right to vote, prohibiting restrictive ID measures, new limits on early voting, measures to crack down on registration drives or same day registration and other voter suppression efforts. Read the Article FEMA Denies Aid to Housing Co-ops After Sandy Laura Flanders, GritTV: Some 120 co-op buildings sustained damage after Hurricane Sandy, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is advising them to apply for "small business" loans even though they are essentially nonprofit entities set up by property owners. Watch the Video Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination? Peter Pearsall, Yes! Magazine: As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased. Read the Article Who's Your Highest-Paid State Employee? S.E. Smith, Care2: A look at the country as a whole reveals that the highest paid state employee in four out of five states is a sports coach. Something is awry when the highest-paid state employee makes millions and those working at the ground level rarely, if ever, break $100,000 annually. Read the Article Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the Fog Radio: A popular resistance is developing throughout the nation, and the more the government fails to listen, the more the media fails to report it, the bigger the explosion of resistance will be. Read the Article Cracking the Codes: Dr. Shakti Butler on the System of Racial Inequity Jen Chien, National Radio Project: How do we talk about race and racism in this country? Not as deeply as we should, according to filmmaker and educator Dr. Shakti Butler. Listen to the Radio Program |
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