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Media Mondays: Santos for Peace

September 11, 2017 By Askewk1 Leave a Comment

First, I would like to remember all those who lost their lives this day. I pray for all the families who were directly impacted and the country as a whole. I am back with another blog post where every Monday I will exclusively talk about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge-city-council, jeff-santos, peace, race, rally, white supremacy

Democrats Can’t Support Baker AND Wonder Why Voters Stay Home

September 1, 2017 By thegreenmiles 38 Comments

Several top Democrats have all but endorsed the re-election of Gov. Charlie Baker, and I want to talk about just one reason why that could potentially cripple the party's effort to convince people to register, turn out, and vote … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: charlie-baker, crime, criminal-justice, race, racial-justice

GOP’s Race War Still Dividing the Working Class

December 5, 2013 By thegreenmiles Leave a Comment

From Richard Nixon's efforts to divide poor whites & blacks to Ronald Reagan's open "Cadillac welfare queens" race-baiting to the Romney/Ryan 47% and makers/takers, using race to divide working-class whites from working-class blacks has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: new-bedford, poverty, race, racism

$$ in politics perpetuates race- and gender-based inequality.

May 3, 2012 By Avi Green 12 Comments

The increasing political power of corporations means that women and people of color have less clout in politics than they deserve.   Money in politics perpetuates economic inequality, of course, but it also negatively impacts the feminist … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election-2012, massachusetts, politics, race, women

“Racial Profiling Is Alive And Well”

July 22, 2009 By ACLUm blog 7 Comments

This incident itself is an opening to the issue of racial profiling.  Here are links to information about two other recent, prominent cases: http://www.aclum.org/news/2007... http://www.aclum.org/docket/va... The first involves the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, gates, race, racial-profiling

Race is everything.

May 28, 2009 By sowyrda 40 Comments

Race is everything. by Kevin Sowyrda We're living in a crude time of racial centric politics.  Nothing new, you say?  Then check out the recent news concerning judiciary appointments in both Washington and Boston. Everything is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: judiciary, obama, quotas, race, sotomayor, supreme-court

Distorting Holder’s comments about race

February 25, 2009 By hubspoke 2 Comments

I hate to draw readers' attention to Jeff Jacoby but his column about Eric Holder today is so full of bull... Distortion #1 - Holder did not say we are a nation of cowards. He said we're a nation of cowards when it comes to dealing with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dialogue, eric-holder, jacoby, race, racism

Recipe for Good Race Discussion: What Eric Holder Left Out

February 22, 2009 By hubspoke 30 Comments

Although frank talk on race calls for structured dialogue, lest anyone think "structured" means "straightjacketed," it's quite the contrary. Once you've agreed to ground rules for respectful dialogue, it actually frees people up to say … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dialogue, eric-holder, race, racism

Incarceration and race

December 5, 2008 By AmberPaw 51 Comments

This link says it all.  For example, in Massachusetts, African-Americans are about 7% of the population but almost 30% of the inmates. Here it is, state by state:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/9381... Probably someone could pull this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: disproportionality, imprisonment, incarceration, race

The Cohen-Langhart Effect

October 31, 2008 By Pablo 2 Comments

On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ordering "equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." As a result, we have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, election, race

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The fact that we are about to be hit with a tidal wave of voter suppression legislation by Republican legislatures throughout the country is the most under reported story right now. The media is unequipped to cover this in clear moral terms and instead prefers to both sides it.

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Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

The conversation between @drvolts and @chrislhayes is accessible to those who know little about the power system, and it's smart, funny and quite profound. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powering-the-grid-with-david-roberts/id1382983397?i=1000510291170

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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