Apr 19 2012
Right Wing Group ALEC Fast Losing Corporate Members After Public Pressure
The American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC announced this week that it will disband the task force behind the raft of voter ID laws and so-called “Stand Your Ground” legislation sweeping the nation. A statement ALEC released on Tuesday said it would shut down its ‘Public Safety and Elections’ group and, “refocus our commitment to free-market, limited government and pro-growth …
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Korean director Kang je-Kyu makes his first major international presence with his film My Way, an enthralling and absorbing exposition of the lives of two marathon runners’. Set within Japan’s occupation of Korea during the Second World War, a Japanese Aristocrat, Tatsuo Hasagewa, and a Korean country boy, Jun-shik Kim, spark a competitive relationship that follows them for the …
The Los Angeles Times is reporting this morning that American soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division took photos of themselves in Afghanistan posing with body parts of a suspected suicide bomber. The US Army has reportedly launched a criminal investigation but it is not the first time such photos have come to light. The attitudes of US soldiers toward Afghans …
A trade deal between the US and Colombia will be full implemented by May 15th, satisfying a major goal of the Obama administration. President Obama announced on Sunday during a trip to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas that years of talks that included demands for strengthened rights for Colombian workers has borne fruit. The President called the deal, …
Citing a net deficit of $3 billion in energy imports and a worsening energy shortage Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced plans on Monday to nationalize the country’s largest oil company. The proposal would give Argentina a 51% share of YPF oil and gas company currently under the control of the Spanish company Repsol. YPF was privatized in …
Nationwide women earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, according to recent data collected by the Center for American Progress. Worse still, the gap for women of color is wider with Black women earning 69.5 percent of the earnings of white males and Latina women only 60.5 percent. The Latino population has increased by almost 50 percent over …
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. 
