this Thursday's choices

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Mar 11, 2010 8:05 AM EST

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ March 11th, 2010

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Mourn Granny D.; Then Organize for Clean Politics

John Nichols:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/10-11

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From Our Archive: How a Small Group of Dedicated People Might Actually Do Something

Doris "Granny D" Haddock:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2003/08/27

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Leaders in House Block Earmarks to Corporations

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11earmark.html?hp

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Hightower: Why Obama and Dems Seem Incapable of Taking a Firm Stand on Anything

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/economy/145977/hightower%3A_why_obama_and_dems_seem_incapable_of_taking_a_firm_stand_on_anything

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Did you see??? Did you hear???? The Governor came out swinging yesterday

The BAT is back..

DFA goal:  one million by the end for March

So far, $302.937.00 by 14,984 contributions…

“We're going to fight for a public option until we get one.”

https://www.democracyforamerica.com/contribution_pages/159

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Yesterday’s The ED Show…on MSNBC, in case you missed it…

Alan Grayson was on..

http://www.bigeddieradio.com/videoblog/details.asp?BID=277

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Rep. Grayson Introduces Bill to Allow Anyone to Buy Into ...  

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) March 9, 2010 Read text of the bill here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_XGJHOYuxw

read the text of the Bill:

http://grayson.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Public_Option_Act.pdf

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Friends In HIGH PLACES
How Pay-Day Lender Pal of Sen. Corker Helped Weaken Financial Reform

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/high-living_pay-day_lender_ceo_tied_bid_to_weaken.php?ref=fpa

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Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11loans.html?hp

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Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/11kansascity.html?hp

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The truth about student loans and why we should support SAFRA

Ending Senseless Subsidies

http://pr.thinkprogress.org/

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Normalizing The Police State

(and how it ends with taser-firing drones)

By Allison Kilkenny

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24956.htm

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Beck, Coulter and Limbaugh: Avatars of Julius Streicher

by: Davidson Loehr, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

http://www.truthout.org/beck-coulter-and-limbaugh-avatars-julius-streicher57551

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Enough Glowing Comparisons, Glenn Beck's Tea Party Is Heir to John Birch Society

By Alexander Zaitchik-AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/news/145995/enough_glowing_comparisons%2C_glenn_beck%27s_tea_party_is_heir_to_john_birch_society_

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Just a few moment…is all it could take:  Could you do some rapid responding today?

Your progressive voice is needed!  Please check out your local paper’s website for an item or two that motivates you…

Here at the Enquirer…the following offer some possibilities..

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

===========or, perhaps there’s something on the ‘news’ page?

Politics & Government

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

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The Ohio Senate Candidates on Jobs

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/10/844853/-The-Ohio-Senate-Candidates-on-Jobs

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Video: Glenn Beck Attacks Me, As Well As ProgressOhio And Some Of Ohio's Top Lefty Bloggers!
By: Dave Harding, ProgressOhio

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/daveharding/CXds

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OHIOANS FOR HUMANE FARMS

http://www.ohiohumane.com/

CAN YOU HELP GATHER SIGNATURES?

http://hsus.salsalabs.com/o/17002/p/salsa/event/common/public/search.sjs?distributed_event_KEY=3

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Kucinich’s HR248 (early withdrawal from Afghanistan) failed…but there were some interesting speeches covered by CSpan…

Liveblog: House Debates HR 248 – Ending the War in Afghanistan

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/34370

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American Elites Abandon Their Faux Regret Over Iraq

  by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/10/friedman/index.html

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Anthrax and the WMD Fear Lobby

by Alan Reynolds,

http://original.antiwar.com/alan-reynolds/2010/03/10/anthrax-and-the-wmd-fear-lobby/

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From People For The American Way..

Progressives and conservatives alike are slamming one of the most blatantly McCarthyist attacks yet. People For the American Way released a report several months ago on the rise of what we called the New McCarthyism. Clearly, that trend is growing.

http://site.pfaw.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=15301&em_id=12901.0

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from and about ‘over there’

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Journalists Will Have to Reinvent Their Future

The End of Newspapers

By MARIE BÉNILDE

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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Welcome To The World’s First Murdochracy
By John Pilger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24955.htm

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When Israelis degrade Israel by humiliating Joe Biden

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155257.html

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Abbas Reported to have Withdrawn from Israeli-Palestinian talks;
Obama Mideast Policy Sabotaged by Netanyahu

Obama's Mideast policy lies in tatters this morning and US credibility as a broker of any future settlement was deeply wounded.

http://www.juancole.com/

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March 16, 2010: International Day of Conscience and Rachel Corrie Day of Action

http://ccrjustice.org/get-involved/action/march-16%2C-2010%3A-international-day-conscience-and-rachel-corrie-day-action

other ‘action’ options available at CCR

http://ccrjustice.org/actions

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Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel in Dock

Court hears how army bulldozer killed peace activist

By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24958.htm

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Democracy Now feature…

7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Gov’t

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/10/family_of_slain_us_peace_activist

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Nigerians Recount the Night of Their Bloody Revenge

By ADAM NOSSITER

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/world/africa/11nigeria.html?hp

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Peace and Solidarity

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain, humorist and author (1835 - 1910)

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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