Keeping the Promise for Higher Education – a Community Conversation Monday, March 7, 2011 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Cleveland High School to make your voice heard. Leading this conversation: KING 5’s Lori Matsukawa Brad Smith, Microsoft Ed Taylor, Un[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tea party’
March 5th, 2011 - 11:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Seattle Meeting, Support for Higher Ed. Monday Evening, Cleveland High
Citizens United Workshop Preps Amendment Advocates
When I arrived for the "After Citizens United" workshop on the blustery Seattle waterfront, a dozen people were chatting. When another half-dozen showed up, co-leader Craig Salins started by colorfully and concisely summarizing the quantum shift toward corporate hijacking of elections since the ruli[...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 8:59 pm § in America
PETITION: Getting Glenn Beck of the air!
Links on the Ave From The Hill From Blatherwatch From Firedoglake Glenn Beck’s Focus on CUNY Professor Brings Her Death Threats The other side. [...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 5:28 pm § in Politics
Is Thomas’s Failure to Disclose Ties to Koch, Reason for Impeachment?
from Robert Reich’s Blog Justice Clarence Thomas, in a speech last weekend to the Federalist Society, accused his critics of “undermining” the legitimacy of the Supreme Court – politicizing it in ways that jeopardize the Court’s credibility in the eyes of the public. He warned: You are[...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 7:25 am § in Schools & Colleges
Free Speech Win in US Supreme Court 8:1
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. Ed. This is a central ruling for those of us devoted to the Frirst Amendment. While[...]
March 3rd, 2011 - 6:27 am § in Uncategorized
Yves Smith on Reagan
More at The Real NewsMore by economist Smith.[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 12:32 pm § in America
Radio host threatens to beat Ron Reagan
The host had never read Ron’s book! Host threatens to beat up our Ron! Listen here.[...]
March 2nd, 2011 - 10:39 am § in Politics
Fox: Suspends Santorum and Newt, favors Huck and Sarah?
Fox News has suspended contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum effective immediately until they decide whether to run for president. Anchor Bret Baier announced on air late Wednesday morning that the network “has suspended its contributor arrangements” with Gingrich and Santorum for the nex[...]
PROTEST ON CAMPUS:Wednesday, March 2, 10:30am by George Washington Statue
from AAUP listserv: USAS (United Students Against Sweatshops) at the University of Washington, formerly known as the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), would like to invite you and members of the UW American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to join students in a solidarity action wi[...]
GOP Leader Dismisses Report That Cuts Would Cost 700,000 Jobs
Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Two weeks after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed a question about the possibility of the lower chamber’s spending bill killing government jobs with the words “so be it,” Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) offered similar sentiments. [...]