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Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women's Bodies
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t r u t h o u t | 05.12
Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women's Bodies
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16243-pregnancy-politics-and-the-policing-of-womens-bodies
Morgan Meneses-Sheets, Truthout: The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that is not in line with our values as a country.
The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16322-the-death-of-truth-chris-hedges-interviews-julian-assange
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it's not just Julian Assange or Bradley Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative," says Chris Hedges.
On Mothers, Mothering and Mass Incarceration
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16330-on-mothers-mothering-and-mass-incarceration
Sheila Bedi, Truthout: In this Mother's Day tribute, law professor and advocate Sheila Bedi learns how "having a child is like letting your heart walk around outside your body."
A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16320-a-penny-a-pound-plus-power-the-coalition-of-immokalee-workers-changes-history
Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: As Wendy's shareholders convene their annual meeting in New York, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling on the remaining, hold-out, major fast food corporation to commit to workers' rights and fair wages.
Terrorism in Boston
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16331-terrorism-in-boston
Jane Powers and Frank Ascaso, Truthout: Powers and Ascao suggest there are a number of lessons we can draw from the responses to the horrible attack on Boston. However, like the violence itself, none of those lessons is pretty.
Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16323-sequestering-our-mothers-spending-cuts-and-effects-on-women
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: Here is an index of how the sequester spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the United States, by the numbers.
Pakistanis Vote in Landmark Election
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16324-pakistanis-vote-in-landmark-election
Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times: Voters, candidates and activists faced violence from militants and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is on track for a potential return to power in the country's first democratic transition of one civilian government to another.
Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16325-obama-in-plunderland-down-the-corporate-rabbit-hole
Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Website: We need to ask ourselves how the forces of corporate capitalism have gained so much power over government, to the extreme detriment of people who aren't rich.
Death Is Preferable to Life at Obama's Guantanamo
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16328-death-is-preferable-to-life-at-obamas-guantanamo
Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn's Website: More than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are starving themselves to death, and 23 of them are being force-fed and allegedly punished for their hunger strike. Meanwhile, the president says he will close the facility, yet his actions belie this rhetoric.
Truthout TV Interviews Mike Ludwig About Chemical Industry Accidents
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16327-truthout-tv-interviews-mike-ludwig-about-chemical-industry-accidents
Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Mike Ludwig talks to Ted Asregadoo about how the accident in Texas was not an isolated incident. Rather, it was one of 1,000 chemically related accidents involving ammonium nitrate and anhydrous ammonia in the last 15 years.
This week in SpeakOut: Lee Camp and William Blum discuss the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and this country's relationship with the idea of "terrorism"; The Institute for Policy Studies reveals how corporate CEOs are promoting austerity measures while profiting from government subsidized money; Palina Prasasouk lists three things the Obama administration could do to close Guantanamo Bay; Len Ellis explains how the true meaning of Mother's Day begins with understanding the role of peace and activism in our society; and more.
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout
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Mother's Day in Newtown
Read the Article at the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackie-barden/sandy-hook-moms-gun-violence_b_3239946.html
Guns Allowed in Some Pennsylvania State Schools Amid Review
Read the Article at the Associated Press
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/guns-in-schools_n_3258786.html
Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own
Read the Article at InsideClimate News
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130508/arkansas-residents-sick-exxon-oil-spill-are-their-own
The Job Fatality Rate Isn't Budging, and No Wonder, With Penalties This Low
Read the Article at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/12/1208074/-The-job-fatality-rate-isn-t-budging-and-no-wonder-with-penalties-this-low
The Last Time CO2 Was This High, We Didn't Exist
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greenhouse-gas-milestone-co2-levels-set-record.php
The Truth About the Right's Latest Benghazi Attacks
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http://www.mediamatters.org/research/2013/05/11/the-truth-about-the-rights-latest-benghazi-atta/194021
Rand Paul: UN Has Secret Plot to "Confiscate and Destroy All" of America's Guns
Read the Article at The Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/12/rand-paul-un-has-secret-plot-to-confiscate-and-destroy-all-of-americas-guns/
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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>Arkansas Residents Sick From Exxon Oil Spill Are on Their Own</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>The Job Fatality Rate Isn't Budging, and No Wonder, With Penalties This Low</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>The Truth About the Right's Latest Benghazi Attacks</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>Rand Paul: UN Has Secret Plot to "Confiscate and Destroy All" of America's Guns</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>Morgan Meneses-Sheets, Truthout:</strong> The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that is not in line with our values as a country.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vAnaiVEORQZC%2FU6iiMBimUGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fupvC6fy3Hi4vT2LKF732EGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange</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> "Corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly, and it's not just Julian Assange or Bradley Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative," says Chris Hedges.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8FKGZorNS1sxZxSrmVB8KkGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s6C1LZEZ3Z9kWLDyskWb1EGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>On Mothers, Mothering and Mass Incarceration</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>Sheila Bedi, Truthout:</strong> In this Mother's Day tribute, law professor and advocate Sheila Bedi learns how "having a child is like letting your heart walk around outside your body."</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pTJMxMclKlEt9VZIqLCv4kGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=M%2BWK871VAHSCH3biVpMC8UGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History</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>Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds:</strong> As Wendy's shareholders convene their annual meeting in New York, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling on the remaining, hold-out, major fast food corporation to commit to workers’ rights and fair wages.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cVpawKlDOsAKPB%2F3iFPnqWcE6CKqy5Z2"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7u1GeS1N1bfQi40lnn%2BK7kGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>Terrorism in Boston</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>Jane Powers and Frank Ascaso, Truthout:</strong> Powers and Ascao suggest there are a number of lessons we can draw from the responses to the horrible attack on Boston. However, like the violence itself, none of those lessons is pretty.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2cszw9xEVHVhmVC6TS2MdEGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rbTRprv1MSRMCPSAEWmoWEGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>Sequestering Our Mothers: Spending Cuts and Effects on Women</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>Sue Sturgis, Facing South:</strong> Here is an index of how the sequester spending cuts will affect women and mothers in the United States, by the numbers.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FIX1UR7NKpRNrsiQQ0FrOEGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BZcRHYq1Qg63odxkBFQpM0GiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>Pakistanis Vote in Landmark Election</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>Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times:</strong> Voters, candidates and activists faced violence from militants and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is on track for a potential return to power in the country’s first democratic transition of one civilian government to another.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hnlSYLnSJOvG4hd7kJ6MyUGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Pqv7D%2FoEg0cSqvV3RbMn4EGiUN%2Fhbdcr"><strong>Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole</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>Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Website:</strong> We need to ask ourselves how the forces of corporate capitalism have gained so much power over government, to the extreme detriment of people who aren't rich.</p>
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