REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
Portside
Death from Above, tar sands, political class, super rich, Occupy, Troy Davis
Serving Detroit
The New York Times
Flying American
Los Angeles Times
Happy Birthday: TDU Turns 37
tdu.org
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) has since become the longest-lived, most successful rank and file movement in U.S. labor history. Many labor historians have noted TDU’s role in winning rights, cutting mob influence in the Teamsters, and giving rank and file Teamsters a voice.
These Global-Warming-Denying Creationists Want to Rewrite Science Textbooks
Mother Jones
Religious conservatives in Texas are fighting to infuse textbooks with their agenda—and it won't just affect public school students in the Lone Star State.
Pope Rejects Church of 'Small-Minded Rules' in Jesuit Interview
National Catholic Reporter
"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," Francis says. "Ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all." In general, he seems to suggest he wants the church to come off as less judgmental and more pastoral, though without becoming morally "lax."
Should Poor People Eat? Let's Hear From Both Sides!
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
It's not unusual for politicians to disagree; one would hope that journalism might intervene on the side of the facts.
NFL: League of Denial
The NFL presides over America's indisputable national pastime -- and an epidemic of long-term brain injuries. What did the NFL know, and when did it know it? A special two-hour investigation reveals the hidden story. Oct 8 on PBS.
Copenhagen Metro Peer Gynt Flash Mob
The Copenhagen Philharmonic surprises the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro in a flash performance of Grieg's Peer Gynt.
After Tiller: Documentary
After Tiller explores third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, who risk their lives in the name of commitment to their patients.
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