| Please Stop "Reforming" Pelican Bay Maya Schenwar, Truthout: The changes made to Pelican Bay prison constitute "reforms" in the way that school closings in poor communities have been dubbed "education reform" or the way in which Reagan's tax cuts for the super-wealthy were championed as "tax reform." Read the Article Key Mistakes Sway Jury in Zimmerman Trial Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: A Southern jury - none of them black - was prohibited from considering race, instructed only on the parts of self-defense law that helped Zimmerman, and heard the chief police investigator improperly testify that he believed Zimmerman - whose shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old the jury found justifiable. Read the Article SCOTUS v. the Right to Vote: Three Strikes, but We're Not Out John Lamperti and Arlene Ash, Truthout: The Supreme Court has delivered three strikes, but the process of democratic elections must not be counted out. The fight for a fair voting system just became a lot harder but remains vital for real democracy to survive. Read the Article Privacy Coalition Sues NSA to Halt Dragnet Surveillance Candice Bernd, Truthout: A broad coalition of 19 political advocacy groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit against the NSA Tuesday for violating their First Amendment rights by collecting their call records. Read the Article Travesty in "Post-Racial" America: the Zimmerman Verdict Dr. Ron Daniels, Truthout: There is no doubt in the minds of many African-Americans that if a black man had killed an unarmed white teenager, that black man would have been found guilty. Such is the state of race relations and racial justice in "post-racial" America. Read the Article It's College Students vs. the Corporate Machine - and the Machine's Winning Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: Higher education used to be seen as a citadel of learning, growth and opportunity; now student debt is being used as a cash cow to subsidize corporate tax breaks. Read the Article Why Were Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman Held to Two Different Standards of Justice? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Why was George Zimmerman held to a different standard and allowed to stand his ground and kill an unarmed teenager without penalty? Nobody ever seriously suggested that Trayvon Martin had a right to stand his ground. Read the Article Time to Repeal ALEC/NRA Stand Your Ground Laws Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: The Trayvon Martin tragedy has never been exclusively about Stand Your Ground laws. The case has captured the nation's attention because it serves as a reminder of the persistent racial inequities that continue to plague the country. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Protesters Opposing Stand Your Ground Laws Occupied the Office of Florida Gov. Rick Scott, and More In today's On the News segment: More than 100 protesters occupied the Florida governor's office and said they weren't leaving until he asks lawmakers to repeal the Stand Your Ground law; Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives passed legislation that will raise taxes on the bottom 80 percent of income earners and give those who earn more than $1 million a $10,000 tax cut; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Why We Strike - Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: J. Baridi Williamson J. Baridi Williamson, Truthout: "We strike for freedom, justice and humyn rights against prolonged isolation and torture in US/California solitary confinement prisons/facilities/units/cell dungeons across this nation's mass imprisonment complex." Read the Article | 
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