Mar 02 2010
Claudette Colvin
Back in the day on, March 2nd, 1955, a fifteen-year old African-American girl refused to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Claudette Colvin had been making her way home from school when she acted in defiance nine months before civil rights icon Rosa Parks had undertaken the very same …
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Mar 02 2010
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” — Maya Angelou …
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Mar 01 2010
An Afghan flag fluttered symbolically over the small town of Marja in Southern Afghanistan on Thursday, signifying that the rural area is now officially out of the Taliban’s hands and under the control of the central government. On February 12th, 15,000 international troops, including 11,000 troops from the U.S. and Afghanistan, were deployed to Marja to fight the few hundred …
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Mar 01 2010
An act passed by Congress and signed into law by the President last May sought to regulate rampant abuses by the credit card industry. That law just went into effect after a nine-month waiting period that in effect enabled companies to adjust their rules and policies. The changes were designed to to bypass the most stringent regulatory measures such …
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Mar 01 2010
An annual gathering of conservatives in Northwest Washington revealed that the Republican Party is in serious trouble apparently from members of its own base. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in mid-February attracted more than ten thousand people, many of them touting extreme right wing rhetoric including expressing support for torture policies and for wiretapping citizens. CPAC attendees promised to …
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Mar 01 2010
Dolores ‘Lolita’ Lebron
Back in the day on, March 1st, 1954, Dolores ‘Lolita’ Lebron alongside three other Puerto Rican Nationalists opened fire on the halls of the U.S. Congress. Independence hopes for the island had quickly faded two years prior when Puerto Rico’s governor signed a commonwealth pact with the United States. In response, the former beauty queen …
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Mar 01 2010
“Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.” — John W Gardner …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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