Ralph was right twenty years ago… “Tweedledum and Tweedledee”
“When voters decide they will no longer be mistreated and summon candidates to their own citizen-powered debates, the dynamics behind the campaigns will shift toward the citizenry.”
Popular Resistance: Join the Revolution
“when massive transnational corporations ally with government to secretly negotiate trade agreementsn these agreements are not going to be good for the people”
Jacobin Magazine: Supreme Court may not be on our side
“The only “reasonable consensus” that the Supreme Court can produce is inherently anti-democratic.”
Teen Girl Fatally Shot by Cops at Texas Police Station
A knife is certainly not nothing. But it’s also not a gun.
But why can’t three cops, in the middle of their own lobby,
subdue a knife-wielding teen girl without using lethal force.
Coignard was shot four times, and three police officers have
been placed on administrative leave.
Putting teachers back in charge…
instead of starving our schools of critical funding and pushing market-based, test-driven policies that ultimately fail our kids, we should be relying on evidence and input from those closest to the classroom to find solutions that work to reclaim the promise of public education. Those closest to the classrooms are teachers. One of the most effective measures we can take is to put teachers back in charge.
Officers attack woman to “prevent…disclosure of…beating a handcuffed man.”
Kianga Mwamba, 36, was tasered and arrested
by Baltimore Police Department officers in March
while using her mobile phone to film officers kicking
and beating on a man in custody. The police seized and
tampered with her mobile phone – erasing the arrest video.
ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Find out What’s goin’ on in Portland, Oregon Justice Deferred is Justice Denied A cop just got away with killing another … Continue reading
Kathy Kelly
There are numerous, obvious solutions to problems in Afghanistan which NATO countries could actually consider, or even attempt, if the alliance was actually there to help improve the quality of life for Afghan people.
Seattle city councilmember Sawant arrested during protest
“We’ve made enormous progress in the fight against income inequality and the fight for decent living standards for workers,” Sawant said as she sat in handcuffs on a patrol car. “We’ve got to do this.”
Three eyewitnesses to Mike Brown murder stand by original accounts of his surrender
Tiffany Mitchell, Piaget Crenshaw, and Dorian
Johnson have each stated since the day Mike Brown was killed that they saw him surrender to Darren Wilson with his hands in the air.
