Given Scant Information, Activists Struggle to Fight New Pipeline in Iowa

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BuzzFlash The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return soon.   The Time to Act Is Now: IPCC Issues "Final Word" on Climate Change Read the Article at The Guardian   The Pentagon's Plans for a Spy Service to Rival the CIA Have Been Pared Back Read the Article at The Washington Post   States Ditch Electronic Voting Machines Read the Article at The Hill   Exxon Fighting to Keep Public From Seeing 900,000 Pages of Documents in Oil Spill Lawsuit Read the Article at InsideClimate News   Probe of an FBI Agent's Misconduct Leads to the Release of Prisoners Convicted of Drug Charges Read the Article at The Washington Post   Federal Judge: Washington Redskins Team Can Sue Five Native Americans Read the Article at MSNBC   Angela Davis | From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, the Racist State of the US Persists Read the Article at The Guardian     Given Scant Information, Activists Struggle to Fight New Pipeline in Iowa Mara Kardas-Nelson, Truthout: Farmers and environmental activists are trying to fight a proposed pipeline that would bring Bakken crude through Iowa. With little information from the company or the government, however, they're left in the dark - and are struggling to organize across ideological divides. Read the Article  The National Security State Has Filled Us With Fear but Not Improved Our Well-Being Tom Engelhardt, Haymarket Books: None of the frameworks we normally call on to understand the national security state capture the irrationality, genuine inanity and actual madness that lie at its heart. Perhaps reimagining what has developed in these last decades as a faith-based system - a new national religion - would help. Read the Excerpt  Truthout Interviews on Domestic Abuse, State Violence and the Case of Marissa Alexander Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Tasasha Henderson, Monica Trinidad and Ash Stephens talk about domestic abuse, state violence and the upcoming trial of Marissa Alexander - a Florida woman who may face up to 60 years in prison because of the state's mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Watch the Interview  This Is What Happens When You Criticize Teach For America George Joseph, The Nation: While Teach For America has failed at providing the nation with many long-term educators, it has provided a stream of political operatives who have gone on to help fuel their former organization's expansion and codify its narrow, corporate vision of education reform. Read the Article  You Just Got "Richsplained" Marjorie E. Wood, OtherWords: According to Steve Siebold - a multimillionaire and author of the book How Rich People Think - billionaires like Walmart founder Sam Walton's affluent heirs deserve their wealth because they think, feel and act differently than ordinary people. Read the Article  Plastics Chemical Linked to Changes in Baby Boys' Genitals Lindsey Konkel, Environmental Health News: Boys exposed in the womb to high levels of di-isononyl phthalate - a chemical found in vinyl products - are born with slightly altered genital development, according to new research. 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Yet the waves of terror sweeping across the world have already moved us rightward, reinforcing a conservative vision across the divide between the Third and First Worlds. Read the Article  This week in Speakout: Gail Smith writes about the urgent need to approve emergency clemency for Niurca Torres; Norman Solomon and Marcy Wheeler report on a new campaign starting with a billboard in Seattle near Amazon headquarters questioning why the CIA is on Amazon's cloud; Lamont Lilly suggests the police report on 17-year-old Lennon Lacy's death conceals a lynching in North Carolina; Robert Bruce Ware dissects racism as it relates to state violence and "open carry" gun rights; Turning Point Suffragist Memorial and Suffrage Wagon News Channel announce a partnership to observe November 15 as the "Night of Terror" campaign against women's suffrage activists; Reprieve reports that 76 members of Congress have demanded to see tapes of the abusive force-feeding practice at Guantánamo Bay; activists from Gas Free Seneca put their bodies on the line to protect Seneca Lake and the Finger Lakes from a gas storage facility built by an out-of-state corporation; Tony Pereira excoriates a California Department of Food and Agriculture plan to allow pesticide spraying anywhere, any time; Tamanna Rahman and Brendan Smith talk about how nurses have become frontline climate workers; and more. 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Last Day to Vote Early. Bank your Vote then Train to Watch the Polls.

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First things first! Early Voting locations are open until 4 today (even if you, or someone you know,  hasn't registered yet, you CAN register and VOTE today!) How cool is that? PLEASE DO THIS TODAY BEFORE 4 PM CALL US TO JOIN OUR MARCH TO VICTORY! 630-629-1125 1) Come to the DPDC HQ in Lombard any time 10-6 November 2, 3, 4 (Map below) 2) Grab a walk or call packet  3) Move some more voters into the D column TONIGHT!  PLEASE COME TO Poll Watcher Training Having MORE  on the polls makes ALL the difference! THIS AFTERNOON Sunday November 2nd  (The Bears have a Bye) 3:30 pm  DPDC HQ in Lombard 1000 Rohlwing Rd  Call 630-629-1125 for any questions! MAP HERE Please RSVP to info@dupagedemocrats.com  with "Poll Watching" in the subject line so we can have materials prepared. ***If you wish to know a little more about this VITAL election day service click on this link for a short Power Point slide show. Paid for by the Democratic Party of DuPage County. A copy of our report(s) filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections and DuPage County Clerk is available (or will be) for purchase from the DuPage County Clerk's office, 421 N. County Farm Road, Wheaton, IL 60187.

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Public Prisons, Private Profits

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To Daily Herald, District 48 disappears in Tea Party Twilight Zone

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Is the Daily Herald in the tank for GOP and Tea Party candidate Peter Breen, running for District 48 state rep?

 

For the last 30 days the Herald has gone silent on the most fascinating of all 118 legislative races in the Land of Lincoln. And it's right in the heart of DailyHeraldland! Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, Lombard, Lisle and Downers Grove have sprouted hundreds of Write-In Marian For 48 yard signs in the lawns of folks who still believe democracy means having choice at election time.
 
Tomlinson's write-in campaign was prompted by the Tea Party's efforts to get her booted from the Democratic ballot on a technicality, which she got on by obtaining nearly 1,000 petition signatures after the Primary. Not to be denied the opportunity to give the district a choice to the Tea Party, Tomlinson mounted a credible write-in campaign in all 102 District 48 precincts, reaching out with hope and vision to all 72,000 registered voters.
 
The Herald was quick to cover the race when Breen's challenge to Tomlinson was upheld in June. Then not a word about the race for over three months till they finally published her candidate profile on October 2. It is a remarkable statement in this age of cynical, anti-government politicians who pander to the fears and ignorance of the electorate, and it can be found here.   http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20141002/submitted/310029848/

Then, mysteriously, the Herald incurred a moral power outage that produced a blackout in their duty to cover real political news and inform the electorate. We've sent them a number of District 48 press releases and dozens of phone calls requesting coverage. For the last two weeks staff writer Jessica Cilella has promised to write a story about the campaign but none has appeared, with ONE news day to go before a blizzard of write-in votes for Marian occurs on Tuesday.

 

Herald founder H.C. Paddock created this great motto 142 years ago:  "To fear God, tell the truth and make money." Money and truth aside, the Herald also apparently fears the Tea Party. 

 

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In Depth: How Big Business Buys State Courts

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