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It Gets Better: The Day I Ran Away From Home
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t r u t h o u t | 09.05
It Gets Better: The Day I Ran Away From Home
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11341-it-gets-better-the-day-i-ran-away-f=
rom-home
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Some time ago, following press reports of suicide=
s of gay teens who had been subjected to bullying, the sex advice columnist=
Dan Savage organized a series of videos addressed to gay teens on the them=
e of, 'It gets better'... I know something about bullying in school. I also=
know something about bullying at home."
Democratic Platform Supports Amending Constitution to Reverse Citizens Unit=
ed
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11346-democratic-platform-supports-amending-=
constitution-to-reverse-citizens-united
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The Democratic Party platform approved by delegates=
on Tuesday attacks Republicans for applauding the Supreme Court's Citizen =
United decision and calls for campaign finance reforms, even if it takes am=
ending the constitution to reverse the landmark ruling that unleashed unpre=
cedented corporate campaign spending."
Fact-Checking the Democratic Party Platform
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11354-fact-checking-the-democratic-party-pla=
tform
J.A. Myerson, Truthout: In the key areas of bank regulation and law enforce=
ment, labor, trade policy, climate change and civil liberties, there are mo=
re than a few differences between the Obama Administration's record and the=
Democratic Party's Platform.
George Lakoff | Low Information or High Morality?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11348-george-lakoff-low-information-or-hi=
gh-morality
George Lakoff, McClatchy Newspapers: "The job of progressives is to speak m=
orally to morally complex voters to activate the progressive moral system a=
lready there in their brains. That is, use your language, not conservative =
language."
The Widespread War on Reproductive Rights
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11349-the-widespread-war-on-reproductive-rig=
hts
Lynsi Burton, Yes! Magazine: "National polls show that most of the public s=
upports birth control and abortion rights. So what's with the trend of tryi=
ng to limit them?"
In the Shadow of the DNC, Organizers Call for a Unionized South
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11337-in-the-shadow-of-the-dnc-organizers-ca=
ll-for-a-unionized-south
J.A. Myerson, In These Times: "Organized under the banner Southern Workers =
Assembly, the group seeks to begin a wide-scale effort to organize labor in=
the South=E2=80=A6 So-called 'right-to-work' laws, in place all over the A=
merican South, hamstring workers attempting to unionize and assert collecti=
ve bargaining rights, and draconian laws implemented to intimidate and depo=
rt undocumented immigrants create an even more precarious class of workers =
whose labor can be exploited for profit more easily."
Paul Krugman | A Candidate's Implausible Dream
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11333-a-candidates-implausible-dream
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "There has, of course, been some pushback agai=
nst my recent column pointing out that the Very Serious Paul Ryan is not, i=
n fact, serious at all=E2=80=A6 [In] particular, they haven't grasped how M=
r. Ryan has gamed the system."
Chris Hedges | Life Is Sacred
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11331-chris-hedges-life-is-sacred=20
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival =
in Tampa, and the one coming up in Charlotte, divert us from the real world=
- the one steadily collapsing around us=E2=80=A6. But reality will soon de=
scend like the Furies to shatter our complacency and finally our lives."
Film "Won't Back Down" Models Hollywood Propaganda in Age of School Reform
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11225-film-wont-back-down-models-hollywood-p=
ropaganda-in-age-of-school-reform
Danny Weil, Truthout: "[In] the latest Hollywood fad, a slew of billionaire=
-funded, contemporary, anti-public-education films and anti-teacher films l=
oaded with the faux struggles of celluloid characters, usually minorities b=
attling against the 'tyranny' of government schools, are being manufactured=
as entertainment propaganda."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The World's Richest Woman Suggests Australi=
a Pay Workers a $2 a Day Wage, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11357-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the-wor=
lds-richest-woman-suggests-australia-pay-workers-a-$2-a-day-wage-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The world's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, w=
ho was born into a wealthy mining family, is suggesting that Australia shou=
ld be considering paying workers a $2 a day wage; Wall Street, along with o=
ther transnational corporations, millionaires, and billionaires, are expect=
ed to spend upwards of $2.5 billion this election; 26 US states are slashin=
g education spending; and more.
Addressing the Food Crisis: Let's Get Our Facts Straight
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11343-addressing-the-food-crisis-lets-get=
-our-facts-straight
Timothy A. Wise, Triple Crisis: "Coverage of the US drought and the run-up =
in corn, soybean and wheat prices has been extensive and welcome. It has al=
so been prone to the repetition of falsehoods and the perpetuation of myths=
about the causes of the food crisis - and the solutions."
Farzana, "Two Million Friends" and a Ceasefire in Afghanistan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11336-farzana-2-million-friends-and-a-ceasef=
ire-in-afghanistan
Kathy Kelly and Hakim, War is a Crime: "A ceasefire=E2=80=A6is what is need=
ed to end the four Afghan decades of using mutual killing as a method of co=
nflict resolution. The UN is uniquely well-positioned to do this, empowered=
by their original Charter to 'remove the scourge of war from future genera=
tions.'"
Undercover Agents Assault Journalists at Democratic Convention in Charlotte
http://truth-out.org/speakout/item/11356-undercover-agents-assault-journali=
sts-at-democratic-convention-in-charlotte
Steve Horn and Kevin Gosztola, Truthout: Two journalists covering the Democ=
ratic National Convention were confronted Sunday by two undercover agents f=
or photographing them.... One grabbed Truthout contributor Steve Horn, corn=
ering him. The journalists want assistance identifying the agents.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Birther Madness Still Infects World Net Daily News, Dispatches From Mars
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11731-birther-madness-st=
ill-infects-world-net-daily-news-dispatches-from-mars
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "Okay, so a lot of birthers spoke at th=
e Republican convention. What do you expect from the invasion of the pod pe=
ople in Tampa?"
Ten Undocumented Protesters Arrested At Democratic National Convention
Read the Article at The Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/ten_undocumente.php
The Speech Obama Should Deliver: "I'll Be Damned if I Let Them Do That Agai=
n!"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11729-the-speech-obama-s=
hould-deliver-i-ll-be-damned-if-i-let-them-do-that-again
US Lays Out Examples of "Gross Negligence" by BP
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/05/us-bp-oilspill-negligence-idUSBRE=
88401E20120905
Glenn Greenwald: CNN and the Business of State-Sponsored TV News
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-business-state-spon=
sored-news
Pentagon Report Finds Military Voting Efforts Underfunded, Ineffective
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/military_voting_underfund=
ed.php?ref=3Dfpnewsfeed
Are Conservative Documentary Films on the Rise?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11730-are-conservative-d=
ocumentary-films-on-the-rise
Joseph E.Stiglitz | Mitt Romney's Fair Share
Read the Article at Project Syndicate
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mitt-romney-s-fair-share-by-jos=
eph-e--stiglitz
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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>Birther Madness Still Infects World Net Daily News, Dispatches From Mars </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>"Okay, so a lot of birthers spoke at the Republican convention. What do you expect from the invasion of the pod people in Tampa?"</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=W39dKozXk%2BHbpuy30vanbyX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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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>Ten Undocumented Protesters Arrested At Democratic National Convention</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=P2z71codOVgIIv8d5Pq17yX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Read the Article at The Village Voice</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Speech Obama Should Deliver: "I'll Be Damned if I Let Them Do That Again!"</strong></p>
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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>US Lays Out Examples of "Gross Negligence" by BP</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=rN5fDKDg8CgZyRqozCyVKiX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Read the Article at Reuters</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Glenn Greenwald: CNN and the Business of State-Sponsored TV News</strong></p>
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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>Pentagon Report Finds Military Voting Efforts Underfunded, Ineffective</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=GcPaquM0uYOTaCtUvc4%2Bgv0rTyaaW0eq"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Are Conservative Documentary Films on the Rise?</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;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=eDci65BR%2FUbmfDWJMMCQfyX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Joseph E.Stiglitz | Mitt Romney's Fair Share</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>Robert Naiman, Truthout:</strong> "Some time ago, following press reports of suicides of gay teens who had been subjected to bullying, the sex advice columnist Dan Savage organized a series of videos addressed to gay teens on the theme of, 'It gets better'... I know something about bullying in school. I also know something about bullying at home."</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=m5EB3InpkVhUnAKxGv7zYCX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=52Gdl4nrQ4slnC1yKidVjCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Democratic Platform Supports Amending Constitution to Reverse Citizens United</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> "The Democratic Party platform approved by delegates on Tuesday attacks Republicans for applauding the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision and calls for campaign finance reforms, even if it takes amending the constitution to reverse the landmark ruling that unleashed unprecedented corporate campaign spending."</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=iy4rAUdrrvBDBn%2BOfPktEyX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=USjl0L%2BCLQxJoBvJG9DJiCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Fact-Checking the Democratic Party Platform</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>J.A. Myerson, Truthout:</strong> In the key areas of bank regulation and law enforcement, labor, trade policy, climate change and civil liberties, there are more than a few differences between the Obama Administration's record and the Democratic Party's Platform.</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=mkilTe%2FITuCzMRv7Wz7bmCX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=MgIza9hdUSnJwctbPJfVQCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>George Lakoff | Low Information or High Morality?</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>George Lakoff, McClatchy Newspapers:</strong> "The job of progressives is to speak morally to morally complex voters to activate the progressive moral system already there in their brains. That is, use your language, not conservative language."</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=c3sz02BLGcBOAgBvmmFwHCX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=BihV5qZt86dZLMshpSZnoCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>The Widespread War on Reproductive Rights</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>Lynsi Burton, Yes! Magazine:</strong> "National polls show that most of the public supports birth control and abortion rights. So what's with the trend of trying to limit them?"</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=GXvr7wczVJMHiZavxK%2Bp%2FSX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=mPkeOaA15g14MB%2B1qRKevyX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>In the Shadow of the DNC, Organizers Call for a Unionized South</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>J.A. Myerson, In These Times:</strong> "Organized under the banner Southern Workers Assembly, the group seeks to begin a wide-scale effort to organize labor in the South… So-called 'right-to-work' laws, in place all over the American South, hamstring workers attempting to unionize and assert collective bargaining rights, and draconian laws implemented to intimidate and deport undocumented immigrants create an even more precarious class of workers whose labor can be exploited for profit more easily."</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=btqzkSQ8zM23K1gJmmujniX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Paul Krugman | A Candidate's Implausible Dream</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>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> "There has, of course, been some pushback against my recent column pointing out that the Very Serious Paul Ryan is not, in fact, serious at all… [In] particular, they haven't grasped how Mr. Ryan has gamed the system."</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=L%2BQZuRpEminuiKbH4AX3RCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Chris Hedges | Life Is Sacred</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>Chris Hedges, Truthdig:</strong> "The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa, and the one coming up in Charlotte, divert us from the real world - the one steadily collapsing around us…. But reality will soon descend like the Furies to shatter our complacency and finally our lives."</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=E1NEGtDmPcP6XGiPmVVJhSX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Film "Won't Back Down" Models Hollywood Propaganda in Age of School Reform</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>Danny Weil, Truthout:</strong> "[In] the latest Hollywood fad, a slew of billionaire-funded, contemporary, anti-public-education films and anti-teacher films loaded with the faux struggles of celluloid characters, usually minorities battling against the 'tyranny' of government schools, are being manufactured as entertainment propaganda."</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=8iN1sHvOdk%2FCRF2oZ7OMCSX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: The World's Richest Woman Suggests Australia Pay Workers a $2 a Day Wage, and More</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> The world's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, who was born into a wealthy mining family, is suggesting that Australia should be considering paying workers a $2 a day wage; Wall Street, along with other transnational corporations, millionaires, and billionaires, are expected to spend upwards of $2.5 billion this election; 26 US states are slashing education spending; and more.</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=TC2h9r3oq8Pcf5bgALCC3yX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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=D8wLRWNsB%2B5j7vmYlrlNRCX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Addressing the Food Crisis: Let's Get Our Facts Straight</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>Timothy A. Wise, Triple Crisis:</strong> "Coverage of the US drought and the run-up in corn, soybean and wheat prices has been extensive and welcome. It has also been prone to the repetition of falsehoods and the perpetuation of myths about the causes of the food crisis - and the solutions."</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=3%2FM4i%2BTG%2FG8j5NIiGcWUZ%2F0rTyaaW0eq"><strong>Farzana, "Two Million Friends" and a Ceasefire in Afghanistan</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 and Hakim, War is a Crime:</strong> "A ceasefire…is what is needed to end the four Afghan decades of using mutual killing as a method of conflict resolution. The UN is uniquely well-positioned to do this, empowered by their original Charter to 'remove the scourge of war from future generations.'"</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=fRoCgQ3aHsrS1SqPdYw2DSX%2Bbocoeu73"><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=%2Fg9rd0wd3FecW0nP1XWpuyX%2Bbocoeu73"><strong>Undercover Agents Assault Journalists at Democratic Convention in Charlotte</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>Steve Horn and Kevin Gosztola, Truthout:</strong> Two journalists covering the Democratic National Convention were confronted Sunday by two undercover agents for photographing them.... One grabbed Truthout contributor Steve Horn, cornering him. The journalists want assistance identifying the agents.</p>
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