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Today’s blip in Time

• Poll supports Palestinian state
• Repeal of gay ban welcomed by civilian partners
• Amazing time lapse video from the international space station
• Progressive POC: Slavery in North America (Part I)
• Today: 9/19: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
  (event will be streamed live)
• Anti-immigration laws hurt economy
• Occupy Wall Street gets underway
• Troy Davis Last Minute Action Alert
• This Week in UFO Phenonenon (by Adept2u)
• If I Drink Enough, Maybe I’ll Turn White (by Cedwyn)
• Obama plans taxes to cut deficit
  Some key features:
  $1.5 trillion in new revenue, which would include about $800 billion realized over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax rates for couples making more than $250,000. It also would place limits on deductions for wealthy filers and end certain corporate loopholes and subsidies for oil and gas companies; $580 billion in cuts in mandatory benefit programs, including $248 billion in Medicare and $72 billion in Medicaid and other health programs. Other mandatory benefit programs include farm subsidies; $430 billion in savings from lower interest payment on the national debt.

Court Support Needed in Brooklyn and Rochester on 9/20

• Stand up against NYPD entrapment and abuse of power!
  End selective, abusive and fake prosecutions!
  Stop dividing New York!

  Brooklyn, New York – Come to the court hearing for Ahmed Ferhani, a 26-year old Algerian-American and Queens resident, one of the latest victims of police, government and prosecutorial abuse.

  Tuesday, September 20th, 9:30 am
  100 Centre Street, Part 51, Judge Obus
  Take the 4, 6, N, Q, J or Z to Canal, or the 4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall or the J, Z to Chambers

  Recent media revelations of joint CIA/NYPD infiltration and surveillance of New York Arab and Muslim communities, which has affected countless campuses, businesses, mosques and other gathering places, show the urgent need to speak out and to support those who have fallen prey to these violations of our constitutional rights!

• Court Support for Cathy Lennon’s Day in Court
  Rochester, New York — On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 11:00pm Cathy Lennon will fight for her family by taking on one of the most powerful institutions in the world, Countrywide/Bank of America, in New York State Supreme Court (Hall of Justice, 99 Exchange St., Rochester, NY before Judge Anne Marie Taddeo). Come out to support Ms. Lennon in court as she tries to overturn her foreclosure and make history in the housing human rights struggle. See also: Lennon’s Hearing Adjourned, Eviction of Cathy Lennon Stayed

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