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Cecily McMillan: The Latest Butterfly on the Wheel
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t r u t h o u t | 05.08
Cecily McMillan: The Latest Butterfly on the Wheel
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23582-cecily-mcmillan-the-latest-butt=
erfly-on-the-wheel =20
Joe Macar=C3=A9, Truthout: The "butterfly upon a wheel" endures as a metaph=
or for individuals punished by the criminal justice system for political re=
asons. Cecily McMillan is the most recent in a long list of examples, from =
Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond to the NATO3 and Monica Jones.
Elizabeth Warren: A Video History of Her Battle Against Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23552-elizabeth-warren-a-video-history-o=
f-her-battle-against-wall-street
Staff, American Family Voices: American Family Voices (AFV) compiled a vide=
o to celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Warren's new book, A Fighting C=
hance. AFV provides highlights of Warren's advocacy for the working people =
of the United States.=20
=20
Progressive Activism Seen as Key to Democratic Turnout in Midterm Elections
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23559-progressive-activism-seen-as-key-t=
o-democratic-turnout-in-midterm-elections
Sam Knight, Truthout: Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus see a=
ctivism and organization as key to Democratic turnout in the midterms, but =
activists are looking for a politics that puts people and principles first.
=20
Washington's Pivot to Ignorance: Will the State Department Torpedo Its Last=
Great Program?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23584-washingtons-pivot-to-ignorance-wil=
l-the-state-department-torpedo-its-last-great-program?
Ann Jones, TomDispatch: Given what the State Department's Fulbright Program=
achieves and what it contributes to American prestige abroad, the budget c=
ut is a terrible idea, but the scheme behind it is worse.
=20
With Friends Like the IMF and EU, Ukraine Doesn't Need Enemies
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23569-with-friends-like-the-imf-and-e=
u-ukraine-doesnt-need-enemies
Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera America: If they are fortunate enough to avoid wa=
r, Ukrainians may be in for an unpleasant economic surprise at the hands of=
European authorities and the IMF in the form of an austerity prescription.
The Other NRA
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23564-the-other-nra
Saru Jayaraman, Truthout: The powerful National Restaurant Association does=
all it can to assure that industry wages are kept so low that many workers=
rely on public assistance and that paid sick leaves - along with taxes - a=
re avoided, making employees go hungry and customers sick.
=20
Oh What a Tangled Web We Freeze
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23573-oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-freeze
Karen Garcia, Sardonicky: Censorship can be accomplished in so many ways. T=
here's the iron-fisted, potboiler/spy-thriller Putin way. Or there's the sm=
army, ice-cold fingers-clenching, wads-of-cash-American way.
=20
When Corporations Get Too Big to Tax
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23570-when-corporations-get-too-big-t=
o-tax
Bob Lord, OtherWords: We may very well see the day when Uncle Sam spends mo=
re money pandering to big companies than it receives from taxing them.
=20
Homeless Forced From Market Street
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23566-homeless-forced-from-market-street=
=20
David Krause, Truthout: San Francisco upgraded its power washing of Market =
Street sidewalks from twice a month to 20 times per month, a rate increasin=
gly hard on the street's homeless population.
=20
Instead of Exploiting the Newest Generation of Americans, Let's Invest in T=
hem
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23586-instead-of-exploiting-the-newes=
t-generation-of-americans-lets-invest-in-them
The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: If we could spend several t=
rillion dollars on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, why not use that kind of m=
oney to pay off all the student loan debt altogether with a debt Jubilee?
=20
Hazardous Cargo: Shipping Highly Flammable Bakken Crude Oil by Rail
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23568-hazardous-cargo-shipping-highly-fl=
ammable-bakken-crude-oil-by-rail
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal: Oil trains are crisscrossing the US an=
d Canada with volatile cargo, yet many communities are not prepared in case=
of an accident.
=20
Economic Update: Corporations, Wages and Jail
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23587-economic-update-corporations-wages=
-and-jail
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on no growth in the U=
S; China overtakes the US; the costs of the GM bailout; and the defeat of t=
he bill to raise minimum wage while Hawaii raises its minimum wage. Major d=
iscussions of Pfizer's decision to relocate to the UK; how the European Cou=
rt supports Tobin (financial transactions) tax; and the stunning economics =
of prisons and jails in the US.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Let's Stand Our Ground and Stop Giving the Gun Guys a Right to Murder
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/let-s-stand-our-ground-and-st=
op-giving-the-gun-guys-a-right-to-murder
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Two recent "stand your ground" cases sh=
ow that the law is more about giving white gun owners the right to set up m=
urders under the guise of protecting themselves than gun rights. The law is=
also a descendant of slavery and segregation, when minorities could be mur=
dered with impunity.
New Movement Aims to "Reset the Net" Against Mass Surveillance=20
Read the Article at Wired
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/reset-the-net/
Obama Administration Threatens Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Over Confi=
dential Sources
Read the Article at The Progressive
http://progressive.org/news/2014/05/187681/obama-threatens-pulitzer-prize-w=
inner
The GOP's Benghazi Show Trial
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-meet-the-chief-prosecut=
or-in-the-gops-benghazi-show-trial/2014/05/07/0dc3d550-d634-11e3-95d3-3bcd7=
7cd4e11_story.html
What Is Boko Haram, and Why Do Its Members Kidnap Schoolgirls?
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/nigeria-boko-haram-kidnapping-e=
xplained
Cliven Bundy Standoff: Locals Want Armed Militia Out, Lawmaker Says
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80131168/
Congress Is Terrible at Science - and This Should Make Us Worried
Read the Article at Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/05/07/the_first_bill_is_terrible_for=
_american_science_and_declining_research_funds.html?wpisrc=3Dhpsponsoredd2
California City Aims to Fight Bullying by Criminalizing It
Read the Article at Reuters
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-hold-usa-bullying=
-california-20140507,0,5694691.story
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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>Let's Stand Our Ground and Stop Giving the Gun Guys a Right to Murder </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>Two recent "stand your ground" cases show that the law is more about giving white gun owners the right to set up murders under the guise of protecting themselves than gun rights. The law is also a descendant of slavery and segregation, when minorities could be murdered with impunity.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IGssi3pXvNtFSaxjv5Qcfpc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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>New Movement Aims to "Reset the Net" Against Mass Surveillance</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1I34IB01wqT3JrTxK9%2BJLZc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at Wired</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Obama Administration Threatens Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Over Confidential Sources</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IKOl8EtrmeKR9pZnAJ1zo5c1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at The Progressive</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 GOP's Benghazi Show Trial</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y6Dq75DfI2ctjk16JqscPJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What Is Boko Haram, and Why Do Its Members Kidnap Schoolgirls?</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kIiIorexmd4XyVpsr6rTTpc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cliven Bundy Standoff: Locals Want Armed Militia Out, Lawmaker Says</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3chPcYQbDMJegpyorV%2BeAZc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Congress Is Terrible at Science - and This Should Make Us Worried</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K%2BMd5RMablkCmgOjc76WmJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Read the Article at Slate</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>California City Aims to Fight Bullying by Criminalizing It</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0F3SDdzWhe5i0FjD4m8%2BLZn%2FEC7ZkPD6"><strong>Read the Article at Reuters</strong></a></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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8ZIE%2BoSo2IvvLRZ0xA5keJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Cecily McMillan: The Latest Butterfly on the Wheel</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>Joe Macaré, Truthout:</strong> The "butterfly upon a wheel" endures as a metaphor for individuals punished by the criminal justice system for political reasons. Cecily McMillan is the most recent in a long list of examples, from Chelsea Manning and Jeremy Hammond to the NATO3 and Monica Jones.</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=loSwGjMAcAymgwp3HPVUcJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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=nDfU5%2BZgCnEy19TIVIU68Jc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Elizabeth Warren: A Video History of Her Battle Against Wall Street</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>Staff, American Family Voices:</strong> American Family Voices (AFV) compiled a video to celebrate the publication of Elizabeth Warren's new book, <em>A Fighting Chance</em>. AFV provides highlights of Warren's advocacy for the working people of the United States.</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=Bgalqk6oIElk0auPu54XM5c1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Watch the Video</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=z0Sb2lCFl6hzSqeJg7GVj5c1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Progressive Activism Seen as Key to Democratic Turnout in Midterm Elections</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>Sam Knight, Truthout:</strong> Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus see activism and organization as key to Democratic turnout in the midterms, but activists are looking for a politics that puts people and principles first.</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=FCza601WDJjKFy6naYZqiJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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=1I34IB01wqRCzKTQSTfHhJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>Washington's Pivot to Ignorance: Will the State Department Torpedo Its Last Great Program?</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>Ann Jones, TomDispatch:</strong> Given what the State Department’s Fulbright Program achieves and what it contributes to American prestige abroad, the budget cut is a terrible idea, but the scheme behind it is worse.</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=%2Bb%2FM%2BLXLsuXaSnsIKQGPXZc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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=W6G%2BuLxc48iCITHqveleIJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>With Friends Like the IMF and EU, Ukraine Doesn't Need Enemies</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>Mark Weisbrot, Al Jazeera America:</strong> If they are fortunate enough to avoid war, Ukrainians may be in for an unpleasant economic surprise at the hands of European authorities and the IMF in the form of an austerity prescription.</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=%2Bb%2FM%2BLXLsuXvtgKrrbbV7pc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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=zEiSMhP%2BV%2FkNE4R2scCSSZc1mfY%2FSi9w"><strong>The Other NRA</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>Saru Jayaraman, Truthout:</strong> The powerful National Restaurant Association does all it can to assure that industry wages are kept so low that many workers rely on public assistance and that paid sick leaves - along with taxes - are avoided, making employees go hungry and customers sick.</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=HVoWxbqmCR8ugzzHYqRPrJc1mfY%2FSi9w"><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>Karen Garcia, Sardonicky:</strong> Censorship can be accomplished in so many ways. There's the iron-fisted, potboiler/spy-thriller Putin way. Or there's the smarmy, ice-cold fingers-clenching, wads-of-cash-American way.</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>Bob Lord, OtherWords:</strong> We may very well see the day when Uncle Sam spends more money pandering to big companies than it receives from taxing them.</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>David Krause, Truthout:</strong> San Francisco upgraded its power washing of Market Street sidewalks from twice a month to 20 times per month, a rate increasingly hard on the street's homeless population.</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>The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> If we could spend several trillion dollars on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, why not use that kind of money to pay off all the student loan debt altogether with a debt Jubilee?</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>Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal:</strong> Oil trains are crisscrossing the US and Canada with volatile cargo, yet many communities are not prepared in case of an accident.</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>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout:</strong> Updates on no growth in the US; China overtakes the US; the costs of the GM bailout; and the defeat of the bill to raise minimum wage while Hawaii raises its minimum wage. Major discussions of Pfizer's decision to relocate to the UK; how the European Court supports Tobin (financial transactions) tax; and the stunning economics of prisons and jails in the US.</p>
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