Reproductive Justice and Women's Equality: There Is Some Good News!

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BuzzFlash The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Monday, May 12.   Albuquerque Residents Attempt Citizen's Arrest of Police Chief Read the Article at The Guardian   Libertarians' Scary New Star: Meet Bryan Caplan, the Right's Next "Great" Philosopher Read the Article at Salon   Alternative Economic Models: What Do Food Co-Ops and Fair Trade Have in Common? Read the Article at Small Farmers. Big Change.   FAA Official: Drone, Jetliner Nearly Collided Over Florida Read the Article at CNN   Raising the Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Benefit 4.7 Million Moms Read the Article at Economic Policy Institute   Confusion on Aisle Four: Making Sense of Fair Trade Food Labeling Read the Article at the Seattle Globalist   Silly Environmentalists, Getting Upset Over a Little Pipeline Read the Article at FAIR     Reproductive Justice and Women's Equality: There Is Some Good News! Eleanor Bader, Truthout: In spite of the continuing onslaught against reproductive justice and women's equality, legislators in 17 states introduced 64 measures to expand reproductive options during the first quarter of 2014, the largest such number in 25 years. Read the Article  Mothers Behind Bars Samantha Sarra, Truthout: Our children's futures demand that we work against the political economies and patriarchal violence that are the root causes of women's incarceration. Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children. Read the Article and Watch the Video  Can Frances Fox Piven's Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy? Mark Engler and Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence: Sociologist Frances Fox Piven says every once in a while there are outbreaks of mass protest, periods of peak activity when the accepted rules of political affairs seem to be suspended. These are extraordinary moments when ordinary people "rise up in anger and hope, defy the rules that ordinarily govern their lives, and, by doing so, disrupt the workings of the institutions in which they are enmeshed." Read the Article  How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps Robin Marty, Care2: Those uncomfortable with the separation of church and state are fighting for the right to convert the country to the Biblical theocracy that they envision our founding fathers wanted. Read the Article  The Big Money in Tax Breaks Continues Becky Sweger, National Priorities Project: From the perspective of the government, tax breaks are no different from any other kind of government spending. Last year, tax breaks equaled the entire discretionary US spending budget. Read the Article  Wisconsin Federal Court Decision Could Mark Beginning of End for GOP Photo ID Restrictions Ernest A. Canning, The Brad Blog: This week's federal court decision to strike down Wisconsin's polling place photo ID law has national significance and does not bode well for Republicans who have been attempting to advance such electoral schemes in recent years. Read the Article  Community Electricity Lights Up Spain Inés Benítez, Inter Press Service: Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organized citizens in fully electrified industrialized countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy. But now anyone can be a co-owner of community projects that promote renewable energy. Read the Article  Derailing the High-Speed Trading Bullet Train Before It Crashes Our Economy Sarah Anderson, OtherWords: High-frequency traders, relying on computers programmed to make trades at speeds measured in the millionths of seconds, accelerated a stock freefall by withdrawing from the market en masse. Four years after they caused the "Flash Crash," those speed demons still rule our financial markets. Read the Article  New Jersey Allowed to Require "Justifiable Need" to Carry a Firearm in Public Crystal Shepeard, Care2: Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment includes the right to bear arms in self defense, guns rights advocates, led by the NRA, have challenged laws that have put restrictions on carrying guns in public. Read the Article  Solar Panels Finally Arrive Atop the White House Lesley Clark, McClatchy DC: The White House is finally on the solar grid, in response to prodding by environmentalists and nearly four years after then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu pledged that solar panels and a solar water heater would be installed on the historic building's roof. Read the Article

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