De todas maneras, la asimilación de nuevos inmigrantes se hace mucho más fácil cuando los retos que cada grupo social afrenta son retos prácticos y no miedos basados en el rumor.
NY Daily News outs GOP-backed NRA for putting weapons in hands of terrorists
Republican federal officials were outed by the New York Daily News this morning for colluding with the NRA to sell guns with no questions asked and no background checks, to anyone with the financial resources to buy them. What this means, is that guns have been legally sold to thousands of people on the FBI terrorist watch list – 2000 in fact, over the past 11 years. And your Republican politician, helped to make that happen.
Good thing that Pres. Obama has made a commitment to dedicate his last year in the White House to pushing for gun control reform.
Exonerees robbed in prison of decades of their lives now work to free others
Christie vetoed bill requiring police & firemen to live in NJ communities they serve
Breaking: TPP text released – and it’s every bit as bad as we feared. Opposition surfaces.
Text for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was finally released in the wee hours of this morning, and after years of waiting, we now know why negotiators insisted on keeping it a secret for so long. This pact is a disaster for the economy, the environment and public health.
See the full TPP text http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership.php
Chalabi late: the man who helped Bush move US into Iraq War
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Obama falls in love with baby pope & his popemobile at White House Halloween
This nice little video shows more 2015 White House Halloween fotos and gives the history of the celebration.
Hat tip to Cynthia Flood for the fabulous share.
I can’t stop crying, thinking about police brutalizing girls in classrooms. We must vote.
Edited to add: I just learned that the assault victim is a girl who was recently orphaned.
Where did we go wrong, my friends and neighbors? I want to ask, to scream, to demand answers. How did we get to the point where we not only allow armed law enforcement officers into our children’s schools to serve as para-security guards … but beyond that point, to where we are today: where the same men who shoot pudgy grown men in the back because they failed to pay child support and band together to choke the life right out of a New Yorker for selling loose cigarettes, are let loose in our babies’ classrooms to brutalize, terrorize and humiliate them and after they do haul them off, no doubt, to lock them up in jails or detention schools or juvenile halls – to make them look the wrongdoers.
The People won prison phone justice today – thanks FCC!
Well, that would be the United States of America – until this morning, that is, when the FCC voted to make prison calls affordable. Thank you for heading up this valuable initiative Commissioner Mignon Clyburn.
Today (Thursday, 21 October 2015), the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to cap the rates and fees companies charge those families struggling to keep in touch with incarcerated relatives by phone. That change came as a direct result of mounting pressure from groups across the country.
Ayuda grátis y de bajo costo con solicitudes de DACA
Recursos para aplicar ó renovar su solicitud de la Acción Diferida – DACA
El programa DACA se ha expandido y algunos de las reglamentaciones se han cambiado. Aprenda más.
El primer paso para todo solicitante sería registrarse con la red nacional DACA Renewal Network. Esto es un proyecto de United We Dream, una organización fundado por jovenes indocumentados para ayudar a la comunidad de los DREAMers. El grupo brinda ayuda a nivel nacional con identificar abogados y programas que ofrecen asistencia con las solicitudes DACA grátis ó a bajo costo. También informa sobre cambios en el programa DACA y el progreso de la propuesta DREAM Act legislación.
Teen tells how he repeatedly hacked CIA director’s email
..sensitive government documents stored as attachments in Brennan’s personal account because the spy chief had forwarded them from his work email … and the sensitive 47-page SF-86 application that Brennan had filled out to obtain his top-secret government security clearance.
The privacy of one of the country’s highest ranking security officials along with sensitive US government data, was compromised by a teenager. SMH.
Bernie Sanders: Koch Bros want to end equality, dignity and hope in America. Don’t let them.
Bernie Sanders lays out exactly what the Koch Brothers want.
With money comes power, and these guys have plenty of money, so watch out America: the Koch Brothers wealth increased by $12B in 2014. They are after your food stamps and other nutrition programs. They want Obamacare dismantled … and same for the United States Post Office, Social Security and housing assistance programs. They want prison populations increased and public education, gone forever. They want to house our parents and grandparents in homes where they decide what food and care they will get.
Big Media hates Lessig’s campaign message (get Big Money out of elections)
So, it makes sense that Big Media is blacking out news and views about the candidate running on a platform to completely cut Big Money out of political campaigns. Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Lawrence Lessig’s platform is barebones simple: let’s reform US politics, beginning with getting Big Money out of political elections. This will make voting more egalitarian and Congress more accountable. From Lessig’s campaign website:
America responds resoundingly to Bernie Sanders’ anger & honesty in Dem Debate
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Uber CEO calls it: the GOP objects to Obamacare because it frees workers
