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Paris Hatcher, Walter Mosley, and Tornados in Alabama
May 4, 2011
"We're supposed to love life, right? And protect mothers and ban abortion because abortion is about ending babies lives, right? But then we see cuts to WIC, [Women, Infants & Children benefits], we know women are being chained to beds to give birth," Paris Hatcher of SPARK Reproductive Justice points out. The entire idea pushed by conservatives that we are concerned with a "culture of life" is proved false by the way our society treats mothers--certain mothers, anyway.
Tornado Devastates Alabama, Southeast
May 4, 2011
One of the deadliest tornadoes in US history, over a mile and a half wide, touched down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama last week, with devastation extending across seven states. More than 350 fatalities have been reported, 80 people are still missing in Tuscaloosa alone, and over a thousand people remain hospitalized with critical injuries. The AL state Emergency Management Agency is calling the aftermath in Tuscaloosa “Katrina, without three days warning...”
Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
January 15, 2010
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a professor of history at Ohio State University and the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, on the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom. The roots of the civil rights movement are deep and Jeffries traces them back to the moment of emancipation.
Red State Blue, Gov. Don Siegelman and Karl Rove
September 17, 2008
In fighting to reclaim the Presidency, one of the Democrats primary charges is the corruption of the Bush Administration and its flagrant obfuscation and manipulation of its power to unconstitutionally undermine or eliminate its opponents.One of the most tragic casualties in the Bush Campaign to politicize the Department of Justice was Gov.
Prosecuting the President, Wall Street's Losses Trickle Down, and Alaska Women Rally Against Palin
September 16, 2008
There’s a British T-Shirt, made of hemp, that reads, “George Bush and Son, Family Butchers (Est. 1989).” The Bush family’s roots in espionage and war go back nearly a century when W’s great-grandfather Samuel Bush served on the War Industries Board in the First World War. Fast-forward to the present and the crimes of the Bush family have collected like dust in the attic.

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