Update from Occupy Riverside Day 12 (tags)
October 25, 2011 RIVERSIDE (California) - Much has happened in the week since the last report filed on Occupy Riverside, including several actions and an incident of police brutality.
Obama Destroys Social Security (tags)
Democrat Obama, with the support of 138 Republicans and 139 Democrats in the House, for a vote of 277 to 148 on HR 4853, Roll Call 647, and a vote of 87 to 19 in the Senate, Roll Call vote 276, won passage of his tax cuts for the rich bill, destroying Social Security by cutting the payroll tax for Social Security by 2%, which will not be restored in 2012, an election year, when the cut is due to expire.
BTL:Minimum Wage Campaign Fights for National Living Wage (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
this Sun 9/2/07,the confederate rag waver Dennis Slater and his band of biggots (tags)
the confederate rag waver Dennis Slater and his merry band of biggots will be at the Home Depot Van Nuys 9/02/07
Interview with James Spooner, director of the Afro-Punk documentary.
Beneath The Surface There Is Much Below (tags)
9/11 related
Sign Petition- Save Housing Assistance Programs (tags)
Sign Petition To Save Low-Income Housing!
Things I've Seen & Heard (tags)
From the short stories collection.
Patty cake, patty cake, roll 'em roll 'em roll 'em roll 'em Throw 'em in the pan!
People around the world are uniting to organize massive rent strikes to Roll Back The Rents! Join Now!
Roll Call: (Reps Halt Filibuster, But...) Judicial Battle Not Over Yet (tags)
Behind a virtual press blackout (just 3 sotries in the Washington Post!) the Republicans filibustered urgent spending bills to try to force Democrats to rubber-stamp Bush's conservative judicial nominees. Now, Roll Call reports, "Republicans say they called a 'cease-fire' on their appropriations blockade after realizing that President Bush would not be able to mount a campaign of public pressure on the Democratic majority over judicial nominations."
Rock'n Roll short-story contest - The tribute to... (tags)
Who's responsible for assassin of Rock'n Roll, like John Lennon or Kurt Cobain?
A CASE FOR REPARATIONS By Mumia Abu-Jamal (tags)
"They got mad at us because we was free and they let us go without a crumb of anything and without a penny and nothing but what we had on our backs .... We had a hard time then and I've been having a hard time ever since." -- Frank Fikes, ex-slave [Genovese, E.D., Roll, Jordan, Roll (1974), p. 99]
NON-G.M.O. process JUST ANNOUNCED! (tags)
Plant Vaccine Promises Safe Genetic Modification (Please read carefully: NO NEW GENE IS INSERTED! Down with MONSANTOS' GENETIC POLLUTION!!!) By Michael Byrnes SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists say they have scored a world breakthrough by developing a vaccine to make plants immune to viruses. Because of how it works, they say, the vaccine sidesteps consumer concerns about genetically modified food.
6/21: Voluntary Rolling Blackout (tags)
Many people all over the world have been planning a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of summer, June 21 at 7pm - 10pm in any time zone (this will roll it across the planet).
Rock'n Roll short-stories submission event@contest. (tags)
This is a short-story of Rock'n Roll submission event for special book and other publishing features.