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t r u t h o u t | Why We Were Falsely Arrested
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, September 5, 2008NYT: Hearing on Columbia Plan Elicits Emotional Speeches
For those who don't know, for the past few years, NYC's two big universities (Columbia, NYU) have been flexing their political muscles by using and attempting to use "eminent domain" to uproot residents and local businesses in order to expand. It is an ugly situation, getting uglier by the year.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 5, 2008
NYT: Charges Said to Be Voided for Bicyclist
Only a first step, but an appropriate one, in one of the most blatant examples of police abuse and brutality ever caught on camera.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 5, 2008
AlterNet: As Unlawful Arrests Continue, St. Paul Feels Like a City Under Siege for Some Residents
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, September 4, 2008Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
go to story"When I asked St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington how reporters are to operate in this atmosphere, he suggested, 'By embedding reporters in our mobile field force.'" - Goodman
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, September 4, 2008
St. Paul Mayor and Media Mum on Journalism Crackdown
go to storyFrom Timothy Carr in Huff Post .. "Police -- with firearms drawn -- raided a meeting of the video journalists and arrested independent media, bloggers and videomakers. Journalists covering protests have been pointed out by authorities, blasted with tear gas and pepper spray, and brutalized while in custody. Democracy Now's Goodman reports that a U.S. Secret Service agent ripped her press credentials from her neck the moment she identified herself to him as a member of the media. Her producers emerged yesterday from their jail cells bloodied and scarred, reporting unusually harsh treatment at the hands of local and federal authorities"
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, September 4, 2008
NYT: Instruction in Pole Dancing Tests the First Amendment
Puritan attitudes vs. free speech.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, September 4, 2008
t r u t h o u t | Pre-Emptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 3, 2008Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 3, 2008NYT: Report Says Gonzales Mishandled Classified Items
"Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales mishandled highly classified information relating to the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program and the administration’s prisoner interrogation program, an internal report concluded Tuesday."Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, September 3, 2008
A threat to democracy, by Géraldina Colotti
About the Roma (gypsies)Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, September 2, 2008
NYT (3): National Politics
A bispartisan call for revamping the measure for "poverty"; McCain's VP "screening process" (or lack thereof); and an unexpected area of concern over Palin.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Video of Amy Goodman's ArrestMore on the flip .. Looks like they're trying to recreate 1968 folks (and i don't mean the activists) - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, September 1, 2008
Police Raid RNC Protest Sites in Twin Cities
go to articleFrom the Minneapolis Star Tribune .. this gestapo shit doesn't even surprise us anymore - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, September 1, 2008
The unfinished year
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, September 1, 2008NYT (6): National Politics
The political reality of "vision" v. "compromise"; Hillary v. Palin; Bush v. himself (Magazine cover article); Blinder v. Stein on Obama's economic plan; and McCain v. Obama on "leading the world."Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, August 31, 2008
NYT: Police Using G.P.S. Units as Evidence in Crimes
If you're going to commit a crime, don't use a car with G.P.S. or EZ-pass. [N.B. In NYC, they actual convicted someone based on their Metrocard, which records where you have been.] Big Brother is definitely watching!Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, August 31, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (4)
Gail Collins hits it out of the park: "McCain does not believe in pandering to identity politics. He was looking for someone who was well prepared to fight against international Islamic extremism, the transcendent issue of our time. And in the end he decided that in good conscience, he was not going to settle for anyone who had not been commander of a state national guard for at least a year and a half. He put down his foot!...The idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong...If she’s only on the ticket to try to get disaffected Clinton supporters to cross over, it’s a bad choice. Joe Biden may already be practicing his drop-dead line for the vice-presidential debate: 'I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine, and governor, you’re no Hillary Clinton'”; a guest op-ed suggesting that Palin was a good choice undermines its own argument ("John McCain chose Sarah Palin because he needs to recast the Republican Party in his own image: anticorruption, pro-reform and fiscally and socially conservative"); a guest op-ed looks at New Orleans three years later ("The third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina serves as a reminder to urge the next president to bring fresh attention to recovery in New Orleans." See also accompanying graphic); and Bob Herbert waxes teary-eyed over Obama's triumph ("For black residents in and around Detroit, Barack Obama’s nomination helped to redeem some of the grief of many years of racial humiliation and oppression").Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, August 30, 2008
NYT: Battles Over Billboard Space Precede G.O.P. Gathering
Stifling free speech in Minneapolis-St. Paul. (And don't forget that the DNC (of which Obama is titular head) and some of its corporate sugar-daddies stifled free speech in Denver as well...)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, August 30, 2008
NYT (2): International News
Protests in Thailand continue to heat up; and despite China's promises of allowing protests during the Olympics, "thousands of relentless protestors [are] in jail or under close surveillance."Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, August 30, 2008
Selection is a bold, but risky, political gamble
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, August 30, 2008McCain reclaims his maverick image
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, August 30, 2008An ex-beauty queen for VP: Political risk or political genius?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, August 30, 2008Paul Cantor: Who Killed Victor Jara?
go to article"A few days after the other 9/11, Victor Jara., a Chilean folksinger, songwriter, actor, director, poet, political activist and teacher, was tortured and then shot to death while being held prisoner by the [US/Nixon-backed Pinochet] military. This year on May 15th Chilean Judge Juan Eduardo Fuentes found Colonel Mario Manriquez, the man in charge of the makeshift prison where Jara was being held, guilty of his murder. Today Colonel Manriquez is under arrest awaiting sentencing while the judge is attempting to determine who else was responsible for torturing and killing him" - Cantor
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, August 28, 2008
NYT Op-Eds (4)
The man who literally wrote the book on LBJ talks about the past and the present ("Barack Obama’s speech — and in a way his candidacy — might not have been possible had President Lyndon Johnson’s address to Congress in 1965 not been given"); Roger Cohen asks, "Is Barack Obama more beer than Chardonnay? Is he a Dunkin’ Donuts or Starbucks guy? Is he one of us despite having what his wife Michelle called 'that funny name?'"; Gail Collins muses on the passing of the "First Lady" torch; and Nicholas Kristof apologizes to Steven Hatfill, but wonders how readers might handle various situations ("The job of the news media is supposed to be to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Instead, I managed to afflict the afflicted").Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, August 28, 2008
