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- TheFightBack, Feb. 18: Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates; Public Funding for Stadiums; D.C.’s Human Rights Report Card
- Actress, Comedian Roseanne Barr Runs for President
- Republican Primary May Get More Interesting: Meet Candidate Walmart
- A Report Card on D.C.’s Status as a Human Rights City
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Criminal (In)Justice in D.C.
Listen to Victoria Clark: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “The whole criminal justice system… needs to be dismantled,” Victoria Clark said outside DC Jail at a Presidents Day rally organized by Occupy DC’s Criminal (In)Justice Committee. “We need … Continue reading
Posted in District of Columbia, Gentrification, Occupy Movement
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TheFightBack, Feb. 18: Lesser-Known Presidential Candidates; Public Funding for Stadiums; D.C.’s Human Rights Report Card
Listen to TheFightBack‘s Feb. 18 Show: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week on TheFightBack on We Act Radio 1480 AM WPWC, we hear from three lesser-known presidential candidates: Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City mayor and outspoken Bush … Continue reading
Posted in District of Columbia, Walmart
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Actress, Comedian Roseanne Barr Runs for President
Listen to Roseanne Barr: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Just three weeks into Roseanne Barr’s campaign for U.S. president, one national poll has her at 6 percent in a three-way race with President Obama and Mitt Romney. The actress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-war
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Republican Primary May Get More Interesting: Meet Candidate Walmart
Listen to Candidate Walmart: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] As Republican presidential hopefuls vie for their party’s nomination, one last-minute entry has gone largely overlooked despite his impressive right-wing credentials. “I’m more Republican than any of the candidates,” said … Continue reading
Posted in Labor/Jobs, Walmart
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A Report Card on D.C.’s Status as a Human Rights City
Listen to the report card contributors: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] In 2008, the D.C. Council declared the District of Columbia the first Human Rights City in the U.S. On a chilly morning last week on the steps of … Continue reading
Posted in District of Columbia, Gentrification
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Should DC Subsidize a Racist Team?
Listen to Dave Zirin: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download MP3 “Everyone loves the Redskins,” D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans said of the local football team with the racist name. At a meeting of the Dupont Circle Citizens Association … Continue reading
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Unlike Mayor, AIDS Activists Face Serious Sentences for Civil Disobedience
Listen to Matthew Kavanagh and Antonio Davis on TheFightBack: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download MP3 Last year, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray went to jail when he and forty others committed an act of civil disobedience outside the … Continue reading
Posted in HIV/AIDS
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TheFightBack, Feb. 11: AIDS Activists Prosecuted, Occupy DC Evicted, Meet Candidate Walmart
LISTEN TO FULL SHOW FROM FEB. 11: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download MP3 This week on TheFightBack we hear from occupier Jason McGaughey who spoke with TheFightBack as Occupy DC was being evicted by U.S. Park Police … Continue reading
Posted in HIV/AIDS, Occupy Movement, Walmart
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Thom Hartmann Discusses Eviction of Occupy DC… and the Use of Black Blocking
Monday on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on RT, Pete and occupier Robert Stephens discussed the U.S. Park Police’s recent eviction of Occupy DC. Of the eleven arrests made Saturday at McPherson Square, two occupiers, Jeremiah DeSousa and Nathan … Continue reading
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Jason McGaughey on the Occupy Movement and the Fight for the Future
Listen to Jason McGaughey: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “We have to fight for our futures,” Jason McGaughey told TheFightBack Saturday at Occupy DC shortly before tensions rose and things escalated, at times tipping over into scenes of … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-war, Environment, Occupy Movement
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