“THEY ARE MY HEROES” Senator John McCain became the first prominent American official to visit Libya on Friday, meeting with representatives of the rebel government and calling for the United States to do more to support the rebel fighters, whom he called “patriots” and “heroes.” (Photo: Marwan Naamani / AFP-Getty via the New York Times)
Singing DNC donors disrupt Obama speech with a protest song for Bradley Manning - HuffPost
Obama was delivering remarks at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel to a crowd of about 200 donors—some of whom paid $35,800 each to attend—when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, “Mr. President, we wrote you a song,” according to White House pool reports.
The president tried to get her to wait, but the woman persisted and “the table of 10 broke into a song that pointed out they’d just spent $5,000 donating to his campaign and went on to protest the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning,” the pool report states.
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The ten singers passed around signs that said “Free Bradley Manning,” and the woman in the white suit took off her jacket to reveal a t-shirt emblazoned with the same message. She was ultimately escorted out of the event, and two others left on their own. The rest stayed and applauded at the end of Obama’s speech. The woman, later identified as Logan Price, can be seen here.
Obama responded to the incident by saying “that was a nice song” and calling it “an example of creativity” as he talked about needing DNC members to return to the energy levels they exhibited in 2008. The pool reporter on the scene, the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee, said Obama “took the song in stride and at first he didn’t seem to realize it was a protest song.”
That was GREAT. A beautiful idea. Look at the lyrics, too!
Maybe Tax Day’s not so bad—if you run a giant corporation. Check out more amazing tax-day charts here, from MoJo’s Dave Gilson.
In three booths at last year’s New York State Fair, 19 men worked in conditions close to slavery. They made and sold chicken gyros and french fries for 16 to 18 hours a day with a 15-minute break and one meal. They were paid $1 an hour.
They slept nine or 10 men to one bug-infested trailer, sometimes two to a bed. Some became ill.
They worked like this for 11 days at the fair.
On the 12th day — Labor Day — they worked 24 hours in a row, according to a federal criminal complaint against their boss.
"— State fair vendor abused workers from Mexico | syracuse.com (via firthofforth)
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(Source: syracuse.com)If birth control was not “controversial” earlier this week, it is definitely about to be. Today, the Florida Senate budget committee adopted an amendment that strikes family planning, including birth control, from Medicaid bill 1972.
The amendment removes line 4186 of the Medicaid bill, which provides “family planning services” for low-income families and replaces it with an amendment that says that state Medicaid plans may elect to not provide birth control and other family planning services “due to an objection on moral or religious grounds.”
UNBELIEVABLE.
I feel so horrible for the families of Florida. This is appalling.
This is appalling.
-R
I don’t there is ever a moment when I’m not ashamed to live in Florida.
The carbon footprint of growing marijuana… is huge
A researcher from The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that growing marijuana in the United States accounts for 1% of all electricity used and costs $5 billion in energy expenditures a year. Ana Kasparian, Michael Shure and Wes Clark Jr. discuss.
From the study:
The analysis performed in this study finds that indoor Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. The yearly greenhouse-gas pollution (carbon dioxide, CO) from the electricity plus associated transportation fuels equals that of 3 million cars. Energy costs constitute a quarter of wholesale value.
This is insane
This is relevant.
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President Obama
Wow. Our president sounds like Senator Bernie Sanders.
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Top US legal scholars voice outrage at Bradley Manning ‘torture’ | Guardian
More than 250 of America’s most eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, contesting that his “degrading and inhumane conditions” are illegal, unconstitutional and could even amount to torture.
The list of signatories includes Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be America’s foremost liberal authority on constitutional law. He taught constitutional law to Barack Obama and was a key backer of his 2008 presidential campaign.
Tribe joined the Obama administration last year as a legal adviser in the justice department, a post he held until three months ago.
He told the Guardian he signed the letter because Manning appeared to have been treated in a way that “is not only shameful but unconstitutional” as he awaits court martial in Quantico marine base in Virginia. [read more; photo via]
“Obama professor among 250 experts who have signed letter condemning humiliation of alleged WikiLeaks source”
Join 245,126 people who have already signed the petition “to immediately end the torture, isolation and public humiliation of Bradley Manning”.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljgd4oRcAb1qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
Top US legal scholars voice outrage at Bradley Manning ‘torture’ | Guardian
More than 250 of America’s most eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, contesting that his “degrading and inhumane conditions” are illegal, unconstitutional and could even amount to torture.
The list of signatories includes Laurence Tribe, a Harvard professor who is considered to be America’s foremost liberal authority on constitutional law. He taught constitutional law to Barack Obama and was a key backer of his 2008 presidential campaign.
Tribe joined the Obama administration last year as a legal adviser in the justice department, a post he held until three months ago.
He told the Guardian he signed the letter because Manning appeared to have been treated in a way that “is not only shameful but unconstitutional” as he awaits court martial in Quantico marine base in Virginia. [read more; photo via]
“Obama professor among 250 experts who have signed letter condemning humiliation of alleged WikiLeaks source”
Join 245,126 people who have already signed the petition “to immediately end the torture, isolation and public humiliation of Bradley Manning”.
if you cannot do this, passing it around is also very helpful. thank you.
if you don’t want to participate in this specific campaign, but can and do want to contact President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about this, their direct contact info is under the quote below.
Text of petition:
We call on you to immediately end the torture, isolation and public humiliation of Bradley Manning. This treatment is a violation of his constitutionally guaranteed human rights, and a chilling deterrent to other potential whistleblowers committed to public integrity.
Just signed.
Read more about the conditions of his detention on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Detention
From a Guardian article published yesterday:
More than 250 of America’s most eminent legal scholars have signed a letter protesting against the treatment in military prison of the alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning, contesting that his “degrading and inhumane conditions” are illegal, unconstitutional and could even amount to torture.
This blog was created basically to inform about the events regarding the Libyan revolution. Now it evolved into other things...
So the following info is still pertaining to the Libya thing...
sulia.com/channel/libya gives you a quick idea of the most important things Libyans send out to the world via twitter while journalist still can't enter many area of the country
Other tumblr blogs that focus on the events in Libya:
- HECK YEAH, LIBYAN REVOLUTION!
- Shergawia
- Free Libya
- anonopgreen
Blogs I recommend for their coverage on the protests in Africa and the Middle East:
- http://pantslessprogressive.com
Call to all bloggers around the world from Libyan-American rapper Khaled M.:
Live Coverage on Libya:
- BBC World Radio Livestream
- Aljazeera English Livestream
- Aljazeera Live Blog on Libya
- LibyaFeb17.com with images, videos
and eyewitness acounts from within Libya
Music video with powerful lyrics and footage from the protests in Libya (pixelated yet still graphic to some degree):
Very important Aljazeera documentary about the backgrounds, the beginning and the brutal police violence of Bahrainian protests:
Demonstration in front of the US embassy in Bahrain's capital Manama (I hold this video very dear):
