That, that & the other.....War on Seniors, Lousiana: Prison Capital of the World!,

Please re-think the policies you support and vote for!

Institute for Southern Studies

 

Intrigue in the world's prison capital...

After Mother Jones Reporter Arrested Outside of Louisiana Private Prison, News Surfaces That...

This morning, the tiny Winn Parish Enterprise published a big story. Last weekend, James West, a reporter for the publication Mother Jones and a...

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Alliance for Retired Americans

 

The New York Times editorial board said of the House GOP Budget unveiled yesterday: "If the budget resolution released on Tuesday by House Republicans is a road map to a 'Stronger America,' as its title proclaims, it’s hard to imagine what the path to a diminished America would look like.

The plan’s deep cuts land squarely on the people who most need help: the poor and the working class. The plan also would turn Medicare into a system of unspecified subsidies to buy private insurance by the time Americans who are now 56 years old become eligible."

Read more. http://www.nytimes.com/…/op…/the-house-budget-disaster.html…

The House Budget Disaster

The Republicans’ road map to a “Stronger America” sticks to the tired themes of tax cuts and spending cuts, no matter the need or consequences.

NYTIMES.COM|BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD

STUNNING VIDEO!

'Nature Is Speaking': 'Mother Nature'

Julia Roberts narrates this installment of the game-changing environmental video series as Mother Nature—and tells you who's really in charge.

http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/10/06/nature-speaking-mother-nature?cmpid=ait-fb

As a result of decades of regressive republican policies that allowed less than 8 corporations to control most of what people can see or hear in the media and less than 12 corporations to control what American people can buy, unless a populist movement takes hold and takes hold very soon the viability of the experiment that the founder's of this country called democracy will simply cease to exist if it's not already to late.

 

SPLC: Arizona Shooting Suspect Is White Supremacist Skinhead

He's also a convicted felon who has far too many guns.

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Brave New Films: Justice

Criminalization is not the answer. ‪#‎ThrowbackThursday‬ 
SOLUTIONS: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

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Zinn Education Project

‪#‎tdih‬ On Mar. 16, 1968 the My Lai Massacre occurred. Hugh Thompson, Jr. (Apr. 15, 1943 – Jan. 6, 2006), a U.S. Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, helped stop the My Lai Massacre. Here is a ballad that you can use in the classroom about Thompson by David Rovics: http://bit.ly/1Fnsoks As the new book "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse exposes, My Lai was not the exception. Here is an interview about the book on Democracy Now!:http://bit.ly/13Zga05 Here is a 100-page free teaching guide from the Zinn Education Project for teaching outside the textbook about the Vietnam War: http://bit.ly/142yvtp

Alliance for Retired Americans

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The House Republican budget was introduced today. It includes Medicare privatization, gutting Medicaid and threats to Social Security. Please read and share Alliance Executive Director Richard Fiesta's statement:

House Republican Budget is a Frontal Assault on the Needs of Seniors

For Immediate Release Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director the Alliance for Retired Americans regarding the House Republican Budget “The budget plan put forward by House Republicans today is a frontal assault on the needs of seniors, persons with disabilities and working Americ...

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League of Conservation Voters

Help us overturn Citizens United ---> http://actionsprout.io/05D1FC
Thanks to Citizens United, the Koch brothers and their dirty energy allies were able to spend more than $100 million electing their candidates in the 2014 midterms. Now, the new anti-environment members of Congress are showing their loyalty to the big polluters that helped put them in office. Sign our petition to overturn Citizens United and get pro-pollution money out of our elections once and for all.
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Overturn Citizens United!
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling, the Koch brothers and their dirty energy allies spent more than $100 million to support anti-environment candidates in the 2014 midterms. Now, the Koch brothers and their...
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Working America with Milo Alvarez

FACT: Where unions are weakened, wages go down and poverty goes up.
(Graphic via Blue Nation Review)