Mar 28 2012
CNN: Lawmaker wearing hoodie removed from House floor
A congressman was removed from the House floor Wednesday after giving a speech about Trayvon Martin while wearing a hoodie.
Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois, told House members, “racial profiling has to stop.”
Rush, a former Black Panther who was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, then took off his suit jacket, pulled a gray hoodie on over his head and put on sunglasses.
“Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum,” …
Wikipedia defines greenwashing as “a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that a company’s policies or products are environmentally friendly.” Bio scienctist Jonathan Latham delves deeper into the issue of “greenwashing” in an article in this month’s Dollars and Sense Magazine and he uncovers that some of the biggest …
The great American writer, Mark Twain once said “Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.” His observations on the human condition and on the United States persist even today. Born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Twain went on to write among the best known and loved of American novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. …
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents. 
The Affordable Care Act is on trial for the second day today in Washington DC as the Supreme Court hears arguments for and against a provision of the healthcare reform legislation that is considered a landmark achievement of the Obama administration. The Justices scheduled three days of oral arguments heard in two-hour sessions, ending tomorrow, making it the …
A 32 year old Iraqi woman named Shaima Alawadi died last Saturday after being attacked in her home 3 days earlier. She was found unconscious by her daughter at about 11 in the morning in her San Diego home. She was lying in a pool of blood that apparently resulted from severe head injuries that suggest she was …
When the Occupy Movement speaks about the 1 percent which has wreaked havoc on this country’s financial system, the billionaire Koch brothers immediately come to mind. Charles and David Koch have given hundreds of million dollars to fund a conservative agenda which promotes the interests of the richest 1 percent of Americans. Now, in Robert Greenwald’s …
