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Walden Bello runs for senator of the Philippines, pushes reforms in governance 
Rep. Walden Bello resigned from Congress on March 19, 2015, because he could no longer support a hypocritical good governance policy under which President Aquino went after his political enemies but protected his corrupt cronies. His resignation was also an act of protest at the president’s refusal to accept command responsibility for the Mamasapano tragedy. He felt that his voluntary stepping down was the ethical thing to do since his party Akbayan, of which he was the principal representati...
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2015 4:15am PDT
Sam Farr's Response re: "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015" 
I too opposed this legislation for a myriad of reasons. Unfortunately, this legislation passed in the House by a margin of 275 to 150 and has been received in the Senate where it was referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 11:11pm PDT
Ratepayers urge MWD to use LA dollars to fix water system, not build tunnels 
Brenna Norton of Food & Water Watch said the current draft of Metropolitan’s 25-year Integrated Water Resources Plan (IRP) proposes building the $67 billion dollar tunnels project, and identifying additional funds to invest in conservation and local water programs. "Mayor Garcetti should block any L.A. dollars from being used to fund the tunnels and demand that L.A. dollars fix L.A. water," she concluded....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 9:01am PDT
Philippines: Alarming incidents of political violence related to 2016 polls 
Akbayan Party-List condemns in the strongest terms possible the recent spate of political violence In what seems to be a prelude to the coming May 2016 elections, involving elected officials and others running for public office....
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2015 6:03am PDT
Witness Venezuela’s Elections This December-6, 2015 
This December, witness one of the most important elections in the history of Venezuela, and of the hemisphere. On December 6, the people of Venezuela will exercise their right to vote in elections for deputies to the country’s National Assembly. Voters will decide whether to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution by retaining a Chavista majority in the National Assembly or return the political intitative to the traditional elites represented by most of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 6, 2015 3:21pm PDT
Ohio Cannabis Legalization Initiative – A Cautionary Tale for California 
Receiving scant attention from marijuana legalization advocates and just about zero attention in the national media, voters in Ohio will be deciding on a very controversial marijuana legalization initiative this November. It is a cautionary tale that the backers of California’s multiple marijuana legalization initiatives should be paying close attention to....
Posted: Mon, Oct 5, 2015 10:48am PDT
Groups Sue to Overturn Controversial Wyoming Data-Censorship Laws CHEYENNE, WY (September 29, 2015) – A diverse coalition of conservation, press, academic and animal-protection groups filed suit today in federal court seeking to strike down a pair of Wyoming state laws that stifle freedom of speech and make citizen science illegal in the state. The suit claims that in violation of Americans’ constitutional rights, the laws punish communication to government agencies of photos and data taken on open land, criminalizing otherwise lawful advocacy in an attempt...
Posted: Tue, Sep 29, 2015 3:00pm PDT
Bernie Sanders' Vague Statement on “War and Peace” is Wanting 
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Sanders' call for a grassroots movement to take power away from the Billionaires and their corporations, and his specific proposals on domestic issues, such as free higher education, give people who want real progressive changes reasons to be excited. His statement on War and Peace does not. Those with politics further to the left, whom call for dramatic reductions in the military budget and an end to the so-called “war on terrorism,” and those with a critique of U.S. imperi...
Posted: Sat, Sep 26, 2015 6:01pm PDT
Libertarian and Green Parties Will File Anti-Trust Lawsuit Against Commission on President 
The Libertarian Party and the Green Party, and other plaintiffs, will file a federal lawsuit on September 29 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The Complaint will allege that the Commission on Presidential Debates is in violation of the venerable old anti-trust laws, the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act....
Posted: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 11:16am PDT
Secret Plan to Capture Listener Sponsored Radio. Fake Progressives Exposed. (audio/mpeg 25.7MB) Twit Wit Radio Aired on KPFA Sept 6, 2015 Political Satire: The Panel skewers the fake progressive wing of the Democratic Party....
Posted: Wed, Sep 9, 2015 9:46pm PDT
Philippines: Bongbong’s whitewashing of Marcos name anathema to 2016 plans 
Akbayan took exception to Senator Bongbong Marcos’s statement that there was no downside to being a Marcos should he decide to run for higher office in 2016....
Posted: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 5:32am PDT
The Hidden Shackles and Chains on the Statue of Liberty 
The story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty was suppressed for more than 125 years. Finally, the National Park Service includes literature that explains the shackles and chains. National Juneteenth Movement is preparing an amazing event on Liberty Island, Rev. Willie Douglass, Stockton, California was on the front line, making it happen in a good way... his legacy will help guide a positive way forward....
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2015 12:41pm PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News August 2015 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the US nuclear industry, and highlights the efforts of those who are working for a nuclear free world....
Posted: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 12:36am PDT
Dr. Jill Stein speaks out in Ferguson July 25, 2015 (video/mp4 32.7MB) How many presidential candidates have visited Ferguson? While there, Jill Stein spoke against systemic racism that leads to fatalities, through forced choices in housing, education, and how we deliver justice. It is amazing she has been painted almost completely invisible by the media - even and especially the "progressive" media....
Posted: Sat, Aug 22, 2015 8:28pm PDT
In Support of Black Solidarity with Palestine It is certainly a milestone in opposing the 67 year occupation of Palestine by the American military base called Israel that we now have African-American solidarity with Palestine in the form of a statement signed by over 1,000 African-Americans and Africans in other countries found at http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html...
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 7:15pm PDT
Bruce Dixon on Black Activism and the Democratic Party (audio/mpeg 10.8MB) On Monday, 08.19.2015, Black Agenda Report Managing Editor Bruce Dixon spoke to WBAI's Morning Show Hosts Michael G. Haskins and Jed Brandt about Black Lives Matter, Black organizing, and the Democratic Party. He says that the attempt to claim the Democratic Party as a populist organization has a long history which included successes, but that elites changed the rules to undermine every one of them....
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 4:20pm PDT
Clean Energy California Targets Assemblymember Baker in SB350 Social Media Campaign 
Ads Mock Oil Industry Effort, Will Target Key Legislators...
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 8:06am PDT
Cyprus IndyMedia computers seized illegally by Police; members interrogated and harassed 
Following the online publication of an article satyrizing the Minister of Health Philippos Patsalis on July 11, the Cyprus IndyMedia Editorial Collective has been subjected to a series of illegal abuses by State authorities which, so far, have also been shamefully condoned by the lower Courts. We are fighting the case at the Supreme Court and preparing, if need be, to take it to the European Court of Human Rights.
o- Editorial Collective founding members Solon Antartis and Petros Evdokas t...
Posted: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 12:07pm PDT
Syriza, Podemos, Left Front… May Capital’s Far Left Die! 
“Communists supposed it… but Syriza surpassed their expectations…”...
Posted: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 8:01am PDT
2016 is the first national U.S. election, in history, to expose campaign billionaires 2016 is the first national U.S. election, in history, in which the intimate details of every campaign donor will be exposed to the world
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It is a long time before the 2016 Presidential election, and already we know quite a bit about Canada Frank and his mining deals and his conflicts of interest with Hillary Clinton. We know about Hillary’s connections to Saudi investors, and who just had a baby in that Saudi family that kicked in the cash via their London investment bank...
Posted: Sat, Aug 1, 2015 11:06am PDT
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