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Reflections on Occupy Wall Street, with photos, fun, and good wishes for the future. eBook, Occupy Wall Street: What Just Happened? (Only $.99 !) In the eBook, the Occupy movement is explored through original reporting, photographs, cartoons, poetry, essays, and reviews.The collection of essays and blog posts records the unfolding of Occupy into the culture from September 2011 to the present. Authors Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder were early supporters of Occupy, using their internet platforms to communicate the changes being created by the American Autumn.
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Brookhaven elected officials Romaine, Cartright, & Kepert vote to overturn Citizens United.
Filed under: activism, campaign finance reform, grassroots democracy, Long Island Politics, New York State Politics, News, US Politics | Tagged: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate personhood, Corporation, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, league of women voters, Move To Amend Brookhaven, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States | Leave a Comment »
Green Party candidates said the Supreme Court ruling on Obama/Romneycare should not distract from real health care reform — Single-Payer
Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, Election 2012, grassroots democracy, Green Party, Healthcare, News | Tagged: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Single-payer health care, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States, Ursula Rozum | Leave a Comment »
Strip-Search For Poetry: A Limerick Contest For The Supreme Court The results are in for the contest we held to create limericks about the Supreme Court’s horrible decision on strip searches, which has decimated the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. With this recent decision, any person who will be held in the “general population” in […]
Filed under: activism, courts, News, politics, progressive politics, US Politics | Tagged: 4th Amendment, Chief Justice John Roberts, Constitution, Constitutional Law, crime & punishment, Criminal Justice, Florence v. Burlington, fourth amendment, invasion of privacy, John Schindler, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice John Roberts, Justice Kennedy, law humor, limericks, Mad Kane, Madeleine Begun Kane, Opinion on Strip Search decision, Opinion on Supreme Court Strip Search Decision, poetry contest, Strip Search, Strip Search decision, Supreme Court, Supreme Court decisions | 4 Comments »
Update 4/24/2012: The winner has been announced! See the post at onthewilderside: here. Five men of the court were quite rude, Giving rights to police very lewd. Well fair’s fair, I dare say. I’ve decided this way: We should make them hold court in the nude. Americans should be outraged by the April 2, 2012 […]
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, News, politics, progressive politics, US Politics | Tagged: 4th Amendment, Anthony Kennedy, Constitutional rights, Criminal Justice, How did Justice Kennedy vote?, Justice Anthony Kennedy, strip searches, Supreme Court, Supreme Court ruling on strip searches, United States Supreme Court | 20 Comments »
whatever the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of the insurance mandate of “Obama / Romney care”, Americans will still be stuck with an expensive, ineffective health care system that fails to provide quality health care to all Americans.
Filed under: 3rd party, activism, Corporations, Election 2012, grassroots democracy, Green Party, Healthcare, News, politics, presidential race, Press Release, progressive politics, public health, reform, US Politics | Tagged: Jill Stein, Mitt Romney, Obama, Single-payer health care, Supreme Court | 2 Comments »
With the influx of tens of millions of undisclosed dollars into this year’s presidential race, the ACLU is publicly re-examining its support of the Citizens United Supreme Court case which removes all controls over corporate spending in politics. The ACLU is questioning whether it underestimated the effect of these super-sized contributions in balancing the right of the […]
Filed under: campaign finance reform, Corporations, elections, grassroots democracy, Green Party, News, Occupy Wall Street, politics, presidential race, US Politics | Tagged: aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Citizens United, corporate personhood, John Paul Stevens, Sotomayor, Supreme Court, United States Constitution | 6 Comments »
At 10:22pm, Democracy Now! reports that the Supreme Court has denied the stay. It seems expected that Troy Davis will be executed soon. Live Coverage at Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/
Filed under: News, progressive politics | Tagged: Death Penalty, Supreme Court, Troy Anthony Davis, troy davis | Leave a Comment »
The number of instances in which Obama has violently breached his own alleged principles when it comes to the War on Terror and the rule of law are too numerous to chronicle in one place. Suffice to say, it is no longer provocative or controversial when someone like Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin writes, as […]
Filed under: Action Alert!, activism, News, politics, president, US Politics | Tagged: civil rights, Criminal Justice, miranda rights, president, Supreme Court | 3 Comments »
from Independent Political Report United States Government Files Brief in U.S. Supreme Court in Lawsuit over Size of U.S. House November 21st, 2010 On November 17, the United States government filed this brief in opposition [pdf at IPR: here], in Clemons v U.S. Department of Commerce, 10-291. This is the case that says that “one […]
Filed under: News, politics, US Politics | Tagged: "one person, congress, democracy issues, equal representation, fair represenation, House of Representatives, Montana politics, one vote", size of Congress, Supreme Court, US Politics, Wyoming politics | Leave a Comment »
An activist I admire a great deal was telling me about a brilliant post on Huffington Post about how the writer was bewildered by Obama picking Kagan. It seems this writer couldn’t understand why Obama (again) picked such a centrist candidate for Supreme Court since he has 59 votes in the Senate. Hello? Brilliant, no. […]
Filed under: activism, News, politics, president, US Politics | Tagged: justice system, kagan, liberal, Sonia Sotomayor, sotamayor, Supreme Court | Leave a Comment »
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRKkXtxDRA] http://murrayhillincforcongress.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Murray-… Until now, corporations only influenced politics with high-paid lobbyists and backroom deals. But today, thanks to an enlightened supreme court, corporations now have all the rights the founding fathers meant for us. That’s why Murray Hill Incorporated is taking democracy’s next step– running for Congress.
Filed under: Corporations, Election 2010, elections, grassroots democracy, News, politics, progressive politics, video | Tagged: campaign donations, campaign finance, Supreme Court | 1 Comment »
Green Party urges a new constitutional amendment affirming that ‘We the People’ means humans, not corporations The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Citizens United v. FEC ruling will turn national, state, and local elections into a corporate power game, said Green Party leaders in reaction to the decision handed down on Thursday. Rich Whitney, 2010 Green Party […]
Filed under: 3rd party, Action Alert!, activism, campaign finance reform, Corporations, grassroots democracy, Green Party | Tagged: Supreme Court | 3 Comments »
