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Deportations Hurt Workers

Liz Cattaneo Jobs With Justice
The tide is turning, but we need stronger executive action to end our country’s unjust deportation policy.

US Lawmakers Must End Efforts to Curb Free Speech on Palestine

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Common Dreams
I remain forever hopeful that, like the nonviolent efforts that have preceded it, the BDS movement will ultimately become a catalyst for honest peace and reconciliation for all our brothers and sisters, both Palestinian and Israeli, in the Holy Land.

Today's Jobs Report and the Supreme Court's "McCutcheon" Debacle

Robert Reich RobertReich.org
The vast middle class and poor don't have enough purchasing power, as 95 percent of the economy's gains go to the top 1 percent. Some wealthy people and big corporations have a strangle-hold on our politics. "McCutcheon" makes that strangle-hold even tighter. Connect the dots and you see how the big-money takeover of our democracy has lead to an economy that's barely functioning for most Americans.

REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!; Progressive Budget, Ryan Budget and economic inequality; General Motors; Supreme Court McCutcheon decision; USAID, Twitter and Cuba; Ukraine

Michael Lewis' 'Flash Boys'

Janet Maslin New York Times
Lewis’s depicts the kind of high-frequency trading that can transmit stock market information from New York to Chicago and back in one-tenth of the blink of an eye and has divided the world of stock traders into the haves and have-nots, depending on what speeds they can afford.

The College Football Assembly Line

Nelson Lichtenstein Reuters
Americans, including football and basketball fans, are fed up with the fiction peddled by the NCAA and the powerhouse sports factories that the players are serious students as well as trained athletes.

Jane Goodall: How She Redefined Mankind

Henry Nicholls mosaic@future
Primatologist Jane Goodall, turning 80 this week, tells Henry Nicholls the inside story on how she transformed our understanding of chimpanzees, what it means to be human, and the controversy and condescension she faced in her influential career.

Tidbits - April 3, 2014

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Reader Comments - U.S. Military Policy, Foreign Policy and Aggression; Public Education and New York's Segregated Schools; Obamacare; Bernie Sanders for President - exchange on electoral politics and tactics; Trade Policy; Venezuela; Congress and the 1%; Pope Francis; poverty; Announcement - Call for Tributes and Reflections: The Life and Work of Rod Bush - San Francisco - Aug. 18, 2014