Tamir Rice’s Mom Responds…
“I don’t want my child to have died for nothing and I refuse to let his legacy or his name be ignored. We will continue to fight for justice”
Bernie, Donald, Hillary, Barack and the corporate bottom line…
“We have 36 years of evidence that unending war is not the answer.”
Professor Suspended for Saying there is One God
“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”
~Larycia Hawkins
The Revolution Solution
“The only chance we now have is through mass civil disobedience.”
Weather in Missoula, Montana tonight… a couple minutes ago…
7 Pearl Harbor Day
6 Chanukah lasts 8 days
12 Poinsettia Day
22 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
23 Festivus – for the rest of us!
25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Boxing Day – not on the 26th this year
31 New Year’s Eve
December 2015 Portland Alliance
Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
Unarmed US citizens killed by armed, uniformed “peace officers”
“Police work is often viewed by those in the force as an us-versus-them war rather than a chance for community-oriented engagement and problem solving. The authors also point to a lack of accountability as one of the reasons why police violence persists.”
Tamir Rice report: Tamir was unarmed; officers shot twice, no warning.
Two experts in police use of force commissioned by the Rice family found “the shooting was unjustified.” Those experts, Roger Clark and Jeffrey J. Noble, also found that the prosecutors reports “contradicted one another, made unfounded assumptions and ignored principles of police training.”
US Cops Kill 1000+ people in 2015
An analysis of the statistics collected so far found the rate of deaths currently stands at 3.1 per day. This rate has remained relatively steady throughout the year, peaking through the month of March to a daily rate of almost four and dipping to an average of 2.6 through June.



