Saturday, January 21, will be the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, a controversial decision which opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending on elections. Occupy Phoenixville will be calling attention to that decision and its implications by screening and discussing the award-winning documentary, The Corporation.
Occupy Phoenixville/Films For Action will kick off its documentary film series on January 21, 2012 by showing “The Corporation” at 6 pm at the Schuylkill Friends Meetinghouse.
Environs and Films For Action present a film screening of King Corn, with guest speaker Simran Sethi and co-director Curt Ellis.
A proposed amendment being debated in the Kansas Legislature would prohibit undocumented immigrants from being eligible for in-state tuition. This ammendment would deprive innocent children brought to the United States through no choice of their own the opportunity for higher education.
Lawrence's very own Tim Hjersted has come under the recent attack of right-wing provocateur Glenn Beck. Hjersted, a co-founder of the local Films For Action project, is accused of a massive radical left-wing, baby-eating conspiracy to kill every hard-working American's grandmother through socialized, Hitler-inspired Single-Payer Health care. To watch the news clip...
The Senate Commerce Committee appears to be poised to confirm Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission.In a hearing that lasted around 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon, Democrat and Republican lawmakers praised Genachowski, with committee chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) going so far as to say he was "thoroughly impressed" with the...
Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is the Senate’s point man on healthcare reform. A new article in the Montana Standard finds that Senator Baucus has received more campaign money from health and insurance industry interests than any other member of Congress.
All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge funds he is protecting from reregulation now. Whatever the last straw, a growing number of Obama...
The local City Commission election that was held last week for Lawrence, KS brought out a dismally low-turnout, just shy of 14%. No doubt similarly low turnouts are common across the U.S. Why does America just not seem to give a damn?As Tim Hjersted writes, “For most kids today, being politically involved is just another option in the vast sea of options. Just another ‘something’ that we can...
November 5. 2008 from Tarek Milleron on Vimeo.The election is over and we must begin turning our country around now, or the opportunity may not come again. By quickly organizing ourselves in each of the 435 congressional districts, over the next 100 days, we can make single-payer healthcare, a living wage, and a less militaristic society our long-term reality. We must do this because the...
The election triumph of Barack Obama and the return of power to the Democrats was a cause for a split second of relief, but not elation. What the world learned is that it will not be subjected to a McCain-Palin presidency, which certainly would have ushered in horrors, violence, and insanity that likely would have dwarfed those of Bush-Cheney.But the arrival of Obama as the new imperial...
I had really wanted to celebrate Barack Obama's remarkable victory for a day or so before becoming cynical again. I really did. And yet, less than 24 hours after the first polls closed, the president-elect chose as his chief of staff -- perhaps the most powerful single position in any administration -- Rahm Emanuel, one of the most conservative Democratic members of Congress.
To understand the meaning of the U.S. election results, it is worth looking back to the moment when everything changed for the Obama campaign. It was, without question, the moment when the economic crisis hit Wall Street.
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other such gibbering numbskulls get to where they are? How could Republican rallies in 2008 be drowned out by screaming ignoramuses...
It could be a start — a clear national rejection of the extreme right-wing brew that has saturated the executive branch for nearly eight years.What’s emerging for Election Day is a common front against the dumbed-down demagoguery that’s now epitomized and led by John McCain and Sarah Palin. A large margin of victory over the McCain-Palin ticket, repudiating what it stands for, is needed — and...
McCain campaign asked McCain family slave descendants not to talk to press... They didn't listen: "He is denying his black and white relatives in Teoc. I think he may not want the country to know his family's full history, but times have changed and we need to move on, and that's why I'm supporting Obama." – Joyce McCain, 54
Private Republican corporations count and compile the votes with secret and unverifiable software. Just as they did in 2000 and in 2004, and we all know how that turned out. Accordingly, the stark fact remains: the Republicans might "win" this election, regardless of the preference of the voters. The culprits who rigged the previous elections are fully aware that they might face hard time in the...
Watch the Trailer:Released September 1st, 2008, "Fabled Enemies" is the newest documentary film to question the events of September 11th, 2001. Instead of focusing on the physical anomalies surrounding the attacks, it focuses on evidence of a vast intelligence network that provided the aid necessary for the 9/11 plot to succeed. It's the definitive film on the subject to date, a must watch for...
Amy Goodman discusses her arrest, the arrests of her colleagues, police response to demonstrators, and freedom of the press at the Republican National Convention.
There was a TV ad for deodorant that said, "Never let them see you sweat." The John McCain campaign has just showed the world that it is drenched.