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My Goodness – The parade is forming!

September 12, 2011 By liveandletlive

I am so happy to hear that the people in the audience can enthusiastically and confidently enlighten Mr. Romney and anyone else who might be standing nearby. Yes people, the parade is forming. Here's hoping that soon it will be marching … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, corporations are people, informed voters, mitt-romney, protests

from the keyboard to the streets

March 3, 2011 By hubspoke

event of possible interest here: Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition March 4, 2011, 9:30am - All are Welcome! Selma to Cairo to Madison: Are Americans Flexing Their Freedom Muscles? Discussion About Direct Action for Freedom and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: labor, madison, protests, unions

Dispatch from Egypt @ Boston Review

February 3, 2011 By boston-review

On Tuesday morning I walked around Cairo's Tahrir Square, weaving through and around the thousands of fellow protesters, trying to get a view of things. The space felt like a giant playground. Everything was accessible to me. Pro-democracy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: egypt, protests, revolution, violence

What to do about Egypt?

February 1, 2011 By irishfury

While BMG generally focuses on domestic politics, I'm sure that the last week's events in Egypt have everyone fixated on this incredible uprising.  I've been following the events non-stop since last week and, as I've read and listened … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: egypt, mubarak, obama, protests

Wall Street – from their perspective.

April 9, 2010 By liveandletlive

It is interesting to listen to the talk on Wall Street, and the way they feel put upon by government and society.  They think Tim Geithner is "solid" and the good guy.  They spin tax numbers to make it seem like they are going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: financial-reform, lobbying, progressive-tax, protests, unions, wall-street

The Anti-Gay Right’s Theater of the Absurd

December 7, 2008 By tudor586

The right wing showed its skill at displaying phony outrage when Barack Obama used the old line about "lipstick on a pig" in reference to McCain's policies and former Mass. Gov. Jane Swift accused him of insulting Palin. Now they're up in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gay-marriage, proposition-8, protests, religious

Nov 15th is National Day of Protest Against CA Prop 8

November 10, 2008 By Laurel

Thirty state constitutions now explicitly discriminate against gays by preventing same-sex marriage (not to mention prohibit adoption and foster parenting by gay parents).  But only in California were gay families stripped of currently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: california, marriage, mormons, proposition-8, protests

The United States of America, or the State of “Norsefire”?

September 3, 2008 By lynne

Even before the convention started, dozens of assault-rifle-wielding swat teams burst into houses where protesters were housing themselves with local friends, handcuffed them and had them lay on the floor, while they took away computers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crackdown, protests, rnc, unconstitutional

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