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Chicago's Quiet Home-Liberation Front
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t r u t h o u t | 08.19
Chicago's Quiet Home-Liberation Front
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10980-chicagos-quiet-home-liberation-front
Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence: "Tens of thousands - possibly hundreds of thousands - of vacant, bank-owned homes are ... so bad that Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced that he'd spend $4 million just to tear some down. The only definition of these so-called assets that makes sense is their immediate capacity to serve as homes for families."
Julian Assange Calls on Obama to End "Witch Hunt"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10990-julian-assange-calls-on-obama-to-end-witch-hunt
Ravi Somaiya and Marc Santora: "With dozens of London police officers seeking his arrest looking on, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took to the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy on Sunday to condemn the United States government and cast himself as one of the world's most persecuted whistle-blowers."
Ohio Secretary of State Removes Democratic Members of Election Board for Supporting Weekend Voting
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10979-ohio-secretary-of-state-removes-democratic-members-of-election-board-for-supporting-weekend-voting
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress: "In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting.... The Obama campaign has filed a law suit in federal court to restore weekend voting."
New Nationwide Study of Election Fraud Since 2000 Finds Just 10 Cases of In-Person Voter Fraud
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10981-new-nationwide-study-of-election-fraud-since-2000-finds-just-10-cases-of-in-person-voter-fraud
Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog: "A new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent."
Washington's Wall Street Sugar Daddies
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10983-washingtons-wall-street-sugar-daddies
Hillary Lehr, Yes! Magazine: "The finance, insurance and real estate industries spend approximately $1,331 a minute on influencing our leaders. A new tool makes it easier for you to find out which ones."
Chinese Labor Activists Get Shut Out, but Won't Shut Up
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10982-chinese-labor-activists-get-shut-out-but-wont-shut-up
Michelle Chen, In These Times: "There have been reports of authorities in [China's] Guangdong [province] harassing and pressuring non-governmental groups that advocate for workers and educate them about their labor rights. According to both mainland and Hong Kong-based activists, their efforts to empower workers have made them a political target."
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Cites San Onofre Nuclear Plant for Security Lapse
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10984-nuclear-regulatory-commission-cites-san-onofre-nuclear-plant-for-security-lapse
Gregg Levine, Capitoilette: "The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) with a violation for what it called a lapse in plant security ... San Onofre has a long list of safety and security problems dating back long before the latest debacle."
Small Government or Smallish-Sort-of-Mediumish-Nicer-Better Government
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10989-small-government-or-smallish-sort-of-mediumish-nicer-better-government
James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario: "It couldn't hurt for the Democrats to have a decent response to the small-government attack line, and that starts with having some kind of understanding of what the federal government actually is and does."
Stand Together as Friends of 30 Million Afghans
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10988-stand-together-as-friends-of-30-million-afghans
Kathy Kelly, Z Communications: "Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain U.S. visas to participate in the US Mexico Caravan for Peace?"
Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10987-jeju-island-base-divides-korean-international-green-groups
Jon Letman, Inter Press Service News: "Jeju, home to multiple UNESCO World Heritage sites and numerous other environmental and cultural special status designations, is taking on new strategic importance as regional military powers and the United States, which maintains dozens of military bases in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, vie for dominance in northeast Asia."
How Author Malcolm Gladwell Shilled for the Health Care Lobby ... and Got Away With It
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10976-how-author-malcolm-gladwell-shilled-for-the-health-care-lobby-and-got-away-with-it
Yasha Levine, AlterNet: "[Malcom] Gladwell has carried water for the health insurance companies in his articles, while getting paid for numerous speaking engagements to the industry."
In Prison, Women Inmates Forge Ties That Bind
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10985-in-prison-women-inmates-forge-ties-that-bind
Viji Sundaram, New America Media: "Bonding the way women prisoners do is not as common among their male counterparts, some prison officials say."
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Ecuador Comes Out Winner as UK Overreaches With Assange Threats on Likely Behalf of US
Read the Blog at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11685-ecuador-comes-out-winner-as-uk-overreaches-with-assange-threats-on-likely-behalf-of-us
What Is Poverty?
Read the Article at DailyKos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/19/1119308/-What-is-poverty?detail=hide
Adviser Says Romney Will Release 2011 Tax Return by October 15
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/19/us-usa-campaign-taxes-idUSBRE87G0RN20120819
In Weak Economy, College Grads "Surge" Into Military
Listen to the Story at NPR
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/18/158505630/in-weak-economy-college-grads-surge-into-military
Ralph Nader on "Paul Ryan's Vicious Budget"
Read the Article at Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/17/paul-ryans-vicious-budget/
How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call It Public Welfare
Read the Article at ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/article/how-nonprofits-spend-millions-on-elections-and-call-it-public-welfare
How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps
Read the Article at The Homeless Adjunct
http://junctrebellion.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps/
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence:</strong> "Tens of thousands - possibly hundreds of thousands - of vacant, bank-owned homes are ... so bad that Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced that he'd spend $4 million just to tear some down. The only definition of these so-called assets that makes sense is their immediate capacity to serve as homes for families."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zvlm%2BGWPobjA38LALm3gGtvRht1hbze%2F"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=217DuqR2%2Bu6PJ64bOEAQqUkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Julian Assange Calls on Obama to End "Witch Hunt"</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ravi Somaiya and Marc Santora:</strong> "With dozens of London police officers seeking his arrest looking on, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took to the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy on Sunday to condemn the United States government and cast himself as one of the world's most persecuted whistle-blowers."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rMeeoJilvpl2pN7Jf43xKUkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H8gjNu%2FI%2F0%2BfR5%2FZsJ0MnEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Ohio Secretary of State Removes Democratic Members of Election Board for Supporting Weekend Voting</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Judd Legum, ThinkProgress:</strong> "In a dramatic move, Ohio Secretary of State John Husted immediately suspended two Democrats on a county election board after they voted to allow weekend voting.... The Obama campaign has filed a law suit in federal court to restore weekend voting."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rMeeoJilvplhnaXlmWLAK0kOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TYMJZ6tKFa%2BkqcdMGqbCX0kOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>New Nationwide Study of Election Fraud Since 2000 Finds Just 10 Cases of In-Person Voter Fraud</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog:</strong> "A new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AeVX2AWFtr7U4r7LXikWWEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Washington's Wall Street Sugar Daddies</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Hillary Lehr, Yes! Magazine:</strong> "The finance, insurance and real estate industries spend approximately $1,331 a minute on influencing our leaders. A new tool makes it easier for you to find out which ones."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f7dT6IhCS%2BRKVDf%2FbhXNGEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QmkcNn4CRZw4nMNG2D%2Fk%2BEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Chinese Labor Activists Get Shut Out, but Won't Shut Up</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michelle Chen, In These Times:</strong> "There have been reports of authorities in [China's] Guangdong [province] harassing and pressuring non-governmental groups that advocate for workers and educate them about their labor rights. According to both mainland and Hong Kong-based activists, their efforts to empower workers have made them a political target."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gRK7XdnY4OTazTNpY0Em%2FXggEjav5iIV"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gregg Levine, Capitoilette:</strong> "The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit Southern California Edison's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) with a violation for what it called a lapse in plant security ... San Onofre has a long list of safety and security problems dating back long before the latest debacle."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nlBiwdtyXv2O9j4w6f6qjEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KnKyc0424KPodCTXIAouFkkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Small Government or Smallish-Sort-of-Mediumish-Nicer-Better Government</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario:</strong> "It couldn't hurt for the Democrats to have a decent response to the small-government attack line, and that starts with having some kind of understanding of what the federal government actually is and does."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xpdZEq%2FBiuqTPTp029ccitvRht1hbze%2F"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZYXm1AqDnp86c3XChcG4O0kOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Stand Together as Friends of 30 Million Afghans</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kathy Kelly, Z Communications:</strong> "Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain U.S. visas to participate in the US Mexico Caravan for Peace?"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DD6lS02%2FLkssnCGfr33ItkkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rFiDWxV4VhATngeqYO5x2tvRht1hbze%2F"><strong>Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jon Letman, Inter Press Service News:</strong> "Jeju, home to multiple UNESCO World Heritage sites and numerous other environmental and cultural special status designations, is taking on new strategic importance as regional military powers and the United States, which maintains dozens of military bases in South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, vie for dominance in northeast Asia."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qjLqaYSRN0K1EnXdvHiu3EkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RhWAoaiIAh8J%2BjEKq1lBz0kOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>How Author Malcolm Gladwell Shilled for the Health Care Lobby ... and Got Away With It</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Yasha Levine, AlterNet:</strong> "[Malcom] Gladwell has carried water for the health insurance companies in his articles, while getting paid for numerous speaking engagements to the industry."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FNLZRESO2Rg4Yp5v7YSQG0kOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Book Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hAkwRMMXhoF8Y%2FjS29nQwUkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>In Prison, Women Inmates Forge Ties That Bind</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Viji Sundaram, New America Media:</strong> "Bonding the way women prisoners do is not as common among their male counterparts, some prison officials say."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fd6Tnru1%2BAAYZaT6V24TjEkOhE0fbRKJ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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