Infomercials for Despots (tags)
lies
Register to Vote to Save Our Schools, Yes on Props 30 and 38 (tags)
We are facing an unmitigated disaster if either Prop 30 or Prop 38 fails to pass as California schools are now 48th in per capita spending and college tuition is beyond the reach of most people. A public school system is the backbone of any society. To help save our schools and our state, you must register to vote before October 22, 2012 to vote on November 6, 2012. You can register online today or at your County Registrar.
PART 2: The New Haitian Revolution: Resistance to U.S. & U.N. Occupation (tags)
". . . Why Haiti has been persecuted for the last 200 years? Because it is an affront to the colonial powers to have slaves rise up and defeat them. It is a bad example. [Applause.] There are a lot of lessons to be learned, and they don't want it ever to happen again. [Applause continues.]" -- Margaret Prescod, Pacifica Radio
Report From Afghanistan by Sonali Kolhatkar, 5-27-05 (transcript) (tags)
". . . If the news media covers something [about Afghanistan], donations pour in. If they stop covering it, donations go down. . . . Our donations have plummeted. A lot of projects [are] closing down." -- Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director, Afghan Women's Mission
The Handmaid's Tale Proceeding on Schedule! (tags)
My fellow Canadian, Margaret Atwood, could not have predicted what we're now going through more accurately.