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For many activists and organizers for social justice, the media aspect of organizing has typically meant having a good list of press contacts and aiming to get your action or story into a major local or national news outlet so that your group or organization… Read full post »

Next week, people from groups and organizations in movements from all over the country are going to be participating in the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit. USSF organizers say the convergence will create a space where movements can come together and learn from one another. Much of this… Read full post »

Nearly sixty days after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed eleven workers, injured seventeen others and created an oil gusher that has been spewing black clouds of oil ever since, President Obama delivered an Oval Office address with the hope of stemming… Read full post »

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Karlos Guana Schmieder, whose mother, Jeanne Gauna was the founder and long term co-director of the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) in Albuquerque, is the communications director for the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and "works with alliances to create communica
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Guitar Shorty plays the Chicago Blues Fest on Sunday, June 13, 2010

Four years I had been attending college in Chicago yet all those four years I never once was able to get to the Chicago Blues Fest. (Cue blues guitar riff.)

But, that changed yesterday. I made… Read full post »

For the past month and a half, progressive bloggers from all over the country have been competing for a select amount of Democracy for America scholarships to the Netroots Nation Conference in Las Vegas from July 22-25.

Netroots Nation is now in its fifth year and has provided opportunities for… Read full post »

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I wasn't one of the Americans who watched a parade of military and civilian officers on Memorial Day one week ago just hours after Israeli commandoes attacked the Freedom Flotilla. I did not go to a march and celebrate the past histories of American war… Read full post »

Israeli censorship of activists and journalists coupled with what Israeli authorities consider the official story has successfully pushed media organizations in the U.S. and other countries to frame the story in a way exclusively beneficial to Israel. The official story usually includes the story of… Read full post »

CNN's Rick Sanchez showed footage of BP's CEO Tony Hayward on a Louisiana Beach yesterday. The footage appeared to show Hayward directing the media and telling them not to shoot certain aspects of the devastated beach. 

Sanchez said of the footage, "There have been… Read full post »

Flickr Photo by Kevin Gosztola | You may know Gen. David Petraeus. You may even know Jack Bauer. But, do you know Gen. Jack Petraeus?

Gen. Jack Petraeus favors secret military operations. He is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men and, when taking action, he doesn't need… Read full post »

Flickr Photo by Kevin Gosztola |Former Sen. Bob Graham & former head of the EPA William K. Reilly were appointed by Obama to head a commission and investigate the BP oil disaster.

In his weekly radio address on Saturday, May 22nd, President Obama selected the two men th… Read full post »

CBS journalists were filming a beach in South Pass, Louisiana, when, according to CBS, a "boat of BP contractors and two Coast Guard officers told them to turn around or be arrested." The incident is thought by bloggers tracking the oil leak in the Gulf to not be the/… Read full post »

 Obama's Oil Spill Panel: Will It Be Better or Worse Than Carter's Three Mile Island Commission?

In the next few days, President Obama will announce the formation of an independent commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster. The commission will likely be/… Read full post »

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Sexually Dangerous Can Be Imprisoned Indefinitely: Can Politicians Be "Sexually Dangerous"?

 A Supreme Court decision on Monday stated that federal official could hold people who are considered "sexually dangerous" indefinitely even i… Read full post »

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Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the Federal District Court in New York granted Chevron's request for a subpoena, which demands access to over 600 hours of footage from "Crude," a documentary that chronicles a legal battle being supported by 30,000 Amazonian settlers hop/… Read full post »

"Arizona Is Not Chicago" shows how communities respond to national events which are perceived as threats to universal human rights. Community responded after the passage of an Arizona immigration law and supported a boycott action at Wrigley Field of the Cubs vs. D'Backs

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Around a hundred supporters of immigrant rights were outside Wrigley Field in Chicago to boycott the first game of the Cubs vs. Diamondbacks four-game series and the Arizona Diamondbacks owners' support for the immigration law recently passed in Arizona.

The boycott of t… Read full post »

Dr. Jack Kevorkian appeared on "Real Time w/ Bill Maher" on Friday, April 23rd. The interview gave Dr. Kevorkian a unique opportunity to discuss how he was being portrayed by Al Pacino and to also explain why he engaged in the activism that he engaged in (which… Read full post »

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When it comes to movement building, so far liberals, progressives and leftists have not been receptive to the idea of dialoguing and finding common cause with members in the Tea Party that may be open to anti-war or even anti-imperialist views.

As… Read full post »

HCAN Rally at Chicago Aetna Headquarters | Feb. 16, 2009

In order to continue to tug health care in a more humane and less corporate direction, Americans should continue to stand up and speak out in favor of single-payer health care. The very future of the so-called public… Read full post »

President Obama at Organizing for America Health Forum in August 2009 | Flickr Photo by Barack Obama

America finally made it. On Sunday night, a health care reconciliation bill with student loan reforms attached passed in the House and Senate with a 219-212 vote and President Obama… Read full post »

 Green Zone is a war film with a message, one that is most certainly not about the honors or glories of war but rather the reasons and justifications for war that might be manufactured to create support for invasions or conflicts. As more and more members of the press and politicians push/… Read full post »