“A rape culture is a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. It is a society where violence is seen as sexy and sexuality as violent. In a rape culture, women perceive a continuum of threatened violence that ranges from sexual remarks to sexual…
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From Democracy Now: The Justice Department is suing state and local officials in Mississippi for allegedly violating the rights of children — especially black and disabled — with routine and unjustified arrests. A federal complaint accuses officers in Meridian, Mississippi, of operating a “school to prison pipeline,” in which youth…
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From WP: Children have elected President Barack Obama to a second term, in Nickelodeon’s 2012 Kids Pick the President voting. Since this franchise began in 1988, kids have correctly picked the POTUS (in advance of the national election) five out of the last six elections. More than half a million…
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From WP: The latest federal lawsuit over alleged mortgage fraud paints an unflattering picture of a doomed lender: Executives at Countrywide Financial urged workers to churn out loans, accepted fudged applications and tried to hide ballooning defaults. The suit, filed Wednesday by the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, also underscored…
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Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives. ~ Paul Wellstone (1944 – October 25, 2002) (20)
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From DemocracyNow: We turn now to a major new exposé on the cover of The Nation magazine called “Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit.” Investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals how Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made some $15 million on the auto bailout…
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From Colorlines: Mitt Romney, his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm that holds a majority share and three out of five board members in the company that owns the “notoriously faulty” electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7.…
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From The National Post: So where do President Barack Obama and his Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on the issues? We look at what they’ve said in the debates and elsewhere. (Click the image to see a larger version.) See also: Obama’s Second Term Agenda, Blueprint for America [PDF]…
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