Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval: Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison…
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Excellent article in the American Journal of Public Health by Lynn M. Paltrow: IN HER BOOK THE NEW JIM Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that the system of mass incarceration in the United States, fueled by the war on drugs, operates in a seemingly color-blind, race-neutral way to create a new…
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From ThinkProgress: Though Congress remains whiter, older, and more male than the nation as a whole, the incoming class will be the most diverse in history. The 113th Congress will be more representative of the United States from race to religion, and from gender to sexual orientation. It will look…
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President Barack Obama’s 2012 election marks the culmination of a decades-long project to build an electorally viable and ideologically coherent progressive coalition in national politics. From Center for American Progress: With President Barack Obama’s decisive victory in the 2012 election, he becomes the first Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt—and the…
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Source: Slate How the ground game trumped super PAC millions: The day before the election, President Barack Obama was preparing to speak in Ohio when state Republicans tweeted that they had knocked on 75,000 doors that day. Campaign aides told Obama they had knocked on 376,000 doors that day, according…
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Light of the Future/Rays of Hope, a mural of Barack Obama in Bushwick, Brooklyn From In These Times: For this is the way the new power lies: Those who once dwelled at the margins of the Commonwealth have appropriated the language of their colonial masters and used it with great…
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