Category Protests
The Wikileaks event at Judson–a short summary
Last week on WBCR, I told you about Birgitta Jónsdóttir, the Icelandic MP and Wikileaks member who was in NY to talk about the Bradley Manning case. She was at a round-table event last Friday at Judson Memorial Church in New York along with a group of journalists who’ve been covering the case for those of […]
Wikileaks lands in NYC–Event at Judson Tonight
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a member of the Icelandic Parliament. That alone would be reason enough to pay attention to her. When Iceland’s economy melted down a few years ago, the government of Iceland held the banksters and speculators responsible and bailed out individuals stuck with underwater mortgages and foreign debt. They also stuck it to foreign […]
Will Kevin Ware get Workers’ Comp?
Let me say first that as the owner of two fractured tibia (now mended, thank God) and two fractured fibula (ditto), I have nothing but sympathy for Kevin Ware, the Louisville basketball guard who was gruesomely injured on Sunday in a game against Duke University. I also hereby own that I have not availed myself of […]
Don’t know much about history: Waterboarding is torture
My ire is piqued today by this report out of the Washington Post. In 2005, a woman working in a senior capacity for CIA Clandestine Operations took it upon herself to sign off on the destruction of videotape the agency had made of what critics have described as ‘torture’. It almost certainly includes waterboarding. That […]
Unemployment drags on
A pair of articles recently in the Huffington Post about unemployment. The first was about Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve, and its prediction that unemployment will stay above 6.5% for the next two years at least. The Fed thus sees no good reason to raise interest rates. Parenthetically, the lousy returns on savings and CD’s are […]
“We Kill 50 Civilians for every Terrorist”
I had a great Sex And Politics interview last night with Marc Saviano, a peace activist and organizer out of Kansas City, Missouri. The groups he is working with are doing important work. Trifecta Resista has made a lie out of the right-wing bromide that anti-war activists are giving President Obama a free pass. I […]
Thursday Night on WBCR is Drone Night!
Tune into WBCR‘s Sex and Politics this coming Thursday at the usual times (8 PM–10:30PM). I’ll be talking to an activist on the front lines of the protests against the Drone Strike program. He has been working with the Occupy Kansas City movement, and has also been a part of Trifecta Resista and PeaceWorksKC groups (he’s […]
Thursday on WBCR: Pipelines and fracking oh my!
This Thursday night you will find me behind the microphone on WBCR‘s Sex and Politics. The show starts at 8 PM and you can pick it up on your internets machine by going into the mywbcr site. I’ll be interviewing a representative of Sane Energy Project, which opposes the development, transport and export of shale gas. they have […]
$22,000,000,000,000
Twenty-two trillion dollars. I thought I’d write it out. That’s not some random number I came up with off the top of my head–That’s the number from a study by the Government Accountability Office, and it’s their best guess of the money lost when the economy went off a cliff in the summer of 2008. […]
Bradley Manning right to a speedy trial denied
This is an update on the Bradley Manning case. It was written by Nathan Fuller and you can find the full version here. Emphasis mine. Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network. February 26, 2013. On PFC Bradley Manning’s 1,005th day in prison without trial, military judge Denise Lind ruled that the government has not deprived him […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 