Welcome to the first day of fall - it is cool and breezy and even rainy - a stark change from yesterday in San Antonio.
Yet there is no stark change in our Nuclear Mayor.
Last night Nuclear Mayor Castro declared that he had made up his mind on the nuclear option for CPS Energy’s and San […]

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in order to siphon funds into private contractors hands based on the fear factor of ‘terrorists’ coming into the US from Mexíco, they’re building a new wall of apartheid in the US - disrupting the natural flow of animal species, running through tribal lands, right through a college campus, and more.
keep up with the latest […]

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from ceci wheeler:
queridos democraciahora/dear democracynow:
increible que la gente pobre no se le permita comer gratuitamente en
lugares publicos que estuvieron abandonados hasta recientemente pero que
los residentes locales pagaron por su subsistencia.  ahora estas personas
seran votadas de estos mismos parques publicos donde se reunen en nuestras
ciudades que es su derecho en primer lugar, esta es una desgracia […]

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go to the UN, say our previous government implemented imperialistic, fascist policies that funded a mess of the Middle Eastern countries. We apologize and have voted to elect a president who is willing to say this and discuss an as close to consensus policy that can be made to rectify the situation. We […]

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anyone have time to research if the statements of rangevoting.org on IRV are accurate?
and what do you think of this ballot initiative they have:
getting it in states like texas where we have no initiative or referendum would be difficult but might be easier than ballot access petitioning!
Possible Language for a Ballot Initiative for “Democracy […]

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living in an ‘ist’ society of such crimes as identity theft, unwarranted surveillance, etc. vs. something completely different…donate your ideas in comments.
‘ist’s: capitalist, racist, communist, sexist, socialist, ageist, classist….add to this list in comments.

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lead pipes banned in 1986, lead paint in the decade or so before, lead toys - still legal.
Urge congress to put the Lead Free Toys Act into law.

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one of the wonder women alive today - Winona LaDuke, 2004 Green Party candidate for Vice President of the US [better to have had her as President :P]
check out her speech about the emerging green economy during the Green For All’s Dream Reborn Conference in Memphis, TN.

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[note: Green Party candidates will be in attendance & at democracy unplugged event previous evening at Strathmore(?) in lieu of canceled GP Science Debate Exclusion Protest. ]
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ALL OUT IN PHILLY ON APRIL 19!
11 am - 5 pm Saturday, April 19th
Federal Courthouse
6th and Market Sts, Philadelphia
12 noon march to City Hall
15th and Market Sts, Philadelphia
THIRD CIRCUIT […]

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so i get this call asking about “anchor babies” and thankfully it was defined for me. I’d never heard this phrase/term. If you haven’t either, it means babies born in the US to undocumented immigrants.
I know there is a long history of this practice, but am not conversant on the issue. If you […]

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