Jasiri X - What if the Tea Party was Black?

September 2nd, 2010

With Tea Party participants and candidates pushing rhetoric such as nullification of federal law under states rights, an issue that was decided during the civil war and reienforced when Southern states tried to deny black children access to school against court orders; or Neveda Senate hopeful Sharon Angle proposing to take down Congress with “Second [...]

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August 2010 National Unemployment Numbers

August 20th, 2010

The following is a press release from the Bureau of Labor statistics:
Friday, August 6, 2010
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — July 2010
Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Federal government employment fell, as 143,000 temporary workers hired [...]

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Fake ICE Checkpoint at Netroots Nation 2010

July 27th, 2010

In ancticipation of the commencement of Arizona Anti-Immigration law (SB-1070), protestors at the liberal Netroots Conference held in Las Vegas this past weekend pulled a stunt to make a point.
As people filed into a lunch session that would also contain a panel on civil rights, protestor dressed up as mock ICE Agents (Immigration and [...]

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