Welcome to any southern state you choose. The time is 1950 and the drinking fountains and restrooms are marked according to your status as a human, i.e. men’s room, women’s room, and colored. The front of the bus is free for the taking, as long as you are white. Housing is racially segregated, schools also. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
A Second Look | Politico Eats Crow
via Democrats plan hundreds of reform rallies — Chris Frates — POLITICO.com. Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system. Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 [...]
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Many Levels of Blame And A Harbinger of Things to Come
Re: Journalists sue over 2008 GOP convention arrests, Steve Karnowski, Associated Press, May 5, 2010 10:27 AM EST MINNEAPOLIS — Syndicated journalist Amy Goodman and two of her producers are suing St. Paul, Minneapolis over their arrests while covering protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention. Goodman and the producers of her radio and TV [...]