When I flew into Providence a few weeks ago, to attend the Netroots Nation conference, I caught a taxi from the airport to the hotel with a fellow by the name of Bob Sloan. Bob, like me, had won one of the Democracy for America scholarships, and we talked about our work as we made […]
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Bob Sloan on the new slavery of the American prison factory system
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged ALEC, American Bail Coalition, Bill McCollum, Bob Sloan, Boeing, Bureau of Justice Assistance, CAD, Charlie Crist, Clearwater, company towns, computer drafting, corrections, cubicles, Dell, Democracy for America, Department of Correction, early release bond, Escod Industries, ex-prisoners, factory, factory work, Florida, Floyd Glisson, GEO Group, HP, IBM, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jack Eckerd, James Crosby, James McDonough, Janet Reno, Jeb Bush, job training, jobs, Keefe Commissary, Koch brothers, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, minimum wage, National Correctional Industries Association, NCIA, Netroots Nation, Newt Gingrich, Nordstrom, OnShore Resources, Pam Davis, Pat Nolan, PIE Program, PIECP, pride, Prison Fellowship Ministries, prison industrial complex, Prison Industries, Prison Industries Act, prison industry, prison labor, prison reform, Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises, prison sentences, prisoner advocate, prisoner rights, Private Correctional Facilities Act, private prisons, privatization, Ray Allen, recidivism, restitution, Right on Crime, slave labor, stand your ground, tethers, Texas, the cost of incarceration, tough on crime, UNICOR, unions, US Technologies, Wackenhut Corrections Corp, workers rights 40 Comments
Daniel Ellsberg calls on other whistleblowers to come forward, before we’re at war with Iran
Chris Hedges, who I often quote here, just interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, hastening the end of the Vietnam war, and contributing toward the downfall of Richard Nixon. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed the increasing severity with which our nation has been cracking […]
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged Bradley Manning, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Espionage Act, fear mongers, FISA, foreign affairs, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Iran, Iraq war, lies, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, Pentagon Papers, propaganda, Richard Nixon, security state, Surveillance State, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Tonkin Gulf, torture, totalitarianism, Vietnam War, war crimes, whistle blower 7 Comments
Voting out the Michigan politicians who helped scrap the Bill of Rights
A Reddit user who goes by the name of DrowningSink has compiled a list of potentially vulnerable politicians up for reelection in 2012, along with their voting records on controversial legislation, such as the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which, as we’ve discussed here repeatedly, gives the government the right to imprison American citizens […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2012, Bill of Rights, common ground, Cook Partisan Voting Index, Dan Benishek, Dave Camp, DrowningSink, due process, Gary Peters, Mike Rogers, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, PROTECT IP Act, PVI, reelection, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Thaddeus McCotter, Tim Walberg 25 Comments