You may have never heard of JLENS, but you have been paying for it for the last eighteen years. The $2.7 billion surveillance program, which was originally slated to be a fleet of blimps used to watch people and vehicles across America, is just the latest in a series of […]
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How the DNC Chair Has Sacrificed Her Party To Stay In Power This week, Debbie Wasserman Schultz continued her “scorched earth” campaign against the Democratic Party in an all-or-nothing bid to secure a Hillary Clinton presidency. While the Clinton machine continues to gain momentum, the Democratic National Committee has been left […]
Following up on their promise to ensure that no 2016 presidential candidate should be able to run without a real plan on how black people will survive and thrive after their initial disruption of the Presidential Town Hall at Netroots, members of Black Lives Matter took aim at Hillary Clinton […]
The Baltimore Curfew Highlighted A Racial Divide Between How Police Dealt With White and Black Protesters While many of the demonstrators in Baltimore questioned the legality of the Mayor Rawlings-Blake imposed curfew (which began on April 28th), tensions came to a climax on Saturday May 2nd with a city wide action to […]
Why do we ignore all the other costs of doing business? Over the last two years there has been a push to raise the minimum wage as working class incomes continue to lag behind increases in the cost of living across the nation. Led by national organizations such as Fight […]
Last Saturday in North Charleston, South Carolina, a routine traffic stop ended in a police shooting, and the death of Walter Scott. Under normal circumstances there would have been nothing remarkable about Scott’s death. Local media spent the weekend recounting the incident as told by Officer Michael Slager via his attorney, who claimed […]
Sharia Law is defined as the moral code and religious law of a prophetic religion. It has long been the “boogeyman” trotted out by Christian conservatives as an example of everything that America should fight against because it is a barbaric socialist theocracy. However, it would seem that Oklahoma is […]
Indiana became the most recent state to enact an expansion of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the state level. In many instances, the reasoning behind such state legislation is rooted in concern for religious freedom of its diverse communities. In Pennsylvania, for example, it ensures that members of […]
Last month, more than 400,000 people took to the streets of New York City to protest against the global systems which continue to contribute to accelerated climate change in the mad dash to increase profits. Billed as the largest climate rally in the history of the world, the “People’s Climate […]
What Happened to the Will of the People? Earlier today, someone asked me to explain why corporations have so much more power than the American people. The easy answer is that now, in America, money is free speech and corporations can speak far louder. And while the sentiment is true, […]