by Libero Della Piana | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
President Obama gave yet another historic speech Wednesday at the mass memorial service for the five Dallas police officers gunned down during a protest of the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in St. Paul, Minn. In a way few...
by Linda Burnham | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century. Patty rollers were authorized to stop, question, search, harass and summarily punish any Black person they encountered. The five- and six-pointed badges many of...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 9, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/oUW7n6X5krM[/fve] Senate Democrats are planning to roll out a package of moderately incremental campaign finance proposals they call the "We the People" plan. They hope to take this plan to the public during campaign season this Fall. The New...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Are you tired of all the nasty, hit-piece, smear ads and mailings against candidates for pubic office that we have to put up with? The way things are set up, we don't even get to know who paid for them. In January President Obama said in the State of the Union...
by Courtney Freudenthal | Jun 3, 2016 | Democracy, Gender Justice
American University professor Jennifer L. Lawless reignited a long-standing debate when she wrote in a May 24 Washington Post article that “there’s much less gender bias in politics than you think.” This is as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald...
by Roger Hickey | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/oVVwHH8FFjE[/fve] On Monday I joined hundreds of others to get arrested at the U.S. Capitol building. It’s been a while since I last engaged in civil disobedience. But I am just one of millions of people in America who want to stop the growing...
