Category Archives: Justice

Injustice in America: Regarding Texas’s Restrictive and Racist Voter ID Law and the Innocent Citizens It Disenfranchises (VIDEOS)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Patrick Svitek of The Texas Tribune reported yesterday that presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would use her speech today in Houston “to call for expanded early voting across the country and criticize states … Continue reading →

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Norman Solomon Writes about Jeffrey Sterling and the CIA: “An Untold Story of Race and Retribution”

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Norman Solomon has an article titled Jeffrey Sterling vs. the CIA: An Untold Story of Race and Retribution over at ExposeFacts. Sterling is the former CIA officer and whistleblower who was convicted of leaking classified information to New York … Continue reading →

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Stateside California: Pregnant Black Woman Who Refused to Provide Identification Slammed to Ground and Arrested by Barstow Police

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) obtained a video taken in January outside a school building by a police body camera of an officer “responding to an apparent traffic dispute.” The dispute  … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Day for May 26, 2015: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Corporate Fascism

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

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Thirteen Democrats Help to Rush “Fast Track” Authority for Obama Trade Deals Through the Senate

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The Senate voted today to advance President Obama’s trade agenda “by ending debate on a bill that would grant him the power to fast-track massive new pacts through Congress.” Michael McAuliff (Huffington Post) reported that some of … Continue reading →

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Picture of the Day for May 21, 2015: On the Subject of Oppression

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

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Scott Walker’s “Scandal-Plagued” Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation in “Full Meltdown”

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro On Monday, Mary Bottari of PRWatch posted an article about Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin titled Privatization Fail: Scott Walker’s WEDC in Full Meltdown. (FYI: WEDC stands for Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.) Bottari said that during his 2010 … Continue reading →

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Unequal Justice in America?: General Petraeus Gets a Slap on the Wrist for Leaking Classified Information…While Former CIA Officer Jeffrey Sterling Gets 42 Months in Prison (VIDEO)

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro On Monday, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to 42 months in prison. Sterling is the former CIA officer who was convicted of “leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen about a failed U.S. effort to … Continue reading →

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Tim Wise on What White Americans Do Not Know…and Do Not Want to Know

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro In January of 2014, I posted a video of Tim White talking about the “concept of whiteness.” (The title on his YouTube video clip reads “Tim White: On White Privilege.”) Yesterday, I came across an article that … Continue reading →

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From the Annals of Driving While Black: ACLU of Colorado Claims Two African-American Men Were Victims of Racial Profiling

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The ACLU of Colorado claims that two African-American men who were pulled over by police in Colorado Springs and taken into custody were victims of racial profiling. The group is representing Ryan and Benjamin Brown, the two … Continue reading →

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