El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
mandala journal
Fifty years after his assassination, this poem honors El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X)
Unions Must Be Able To Fight For Workers - Even If It Means Breaking Bad Laws
The Guardian
People have intrinsic rights that democratically elected legislatures sometimes violate. The right of working people to combine, to organise, is one of them
LBJ: Pass the Voting Rights Act
Fifty years ago (March 15, 1965), in the wake of Selma's Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon Johnson addressed Congress on the subject of 'The American Promise,' calling for the immediate passage of a voting right act that would end disfranchisement of African Americans.
Why Warren Buffett's $1B March Madness Bet Is Safe
Warren Buffett has promised a cool billion dollars to anyone who gets all 63 matchups in the March Madness brackets right. Here's why he won't have to pay off.
Burned at McDonald's
Four out of five fast food workers have been BURNED, often badly, for one simple reason: Fast food companies care way more about their profits than the basic safety of their workers. It’s outrageous and unbelievable. See for yourself.
Where Do Right Wing Conspiracies Come From?
After a woman tells Rick Santorum that President Obama "tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston," Chris Hayes asks: Did I miss something?
Scientists Call for Halt to Human Genome Tinkering
Public Library of Science
It's now possible to modify the human germ line, and the rules haven't caught up with the science. The best way to respond to concerns created by emerging knowledge or early-stage technologies is for scientists from publicly-funded institutions to find common cause with the wider public about the best way to regulate — as early as possible. Once scientists from corporations begin to dominate the research enterprise, it will simply be too late.
LBJ's Voting Rights Speech Shows the Power of Grassroots Activism
The Atlantic
Johnson gave full credit to the movement. “The real hero of this struggle is the American Negro. His actions and protests, his courage to risk safety and even to risk his life, have awakened the conscience of this nation. His demonstrations have been designed to call attention to injustice, designed to provoke change, designed to stir reform. He has called upon us to make good the promise of America.”
A Platform for People and the Planet
Campaign for America's Future
The Populism 2015 platform is a set of principles; the Progressive Caucus budget shows how those principles can be translated into government policy.
Pentagon Admits Israel Has Nukes, Too
The Nation
Early last month the Department of Defense released a secret report done in 1987 by the Pentagon-funded Institute for Defense Analysis that essentially confirms the existence of Israel’s nukes. The confirmation of this poorly kept secret opens a troublesome can of worms for both the US government and our closest ally in the Middle East.
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