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Roseanne Barr on Mother’s Day, running 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

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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

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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

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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 on We Act Radio: [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 … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Occupy DC Evicted

“This is not an eviction,” U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said Saturday morning at an impromptu press conference held at Occupy DC at McPherson Square as a small army of officers searched the encampment. Throughout the morning, it … Continue reading

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TheFightBack: Catching the Occupy DC Beat

Listen to this week’s show: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download MP3 (WeActRadio.com 1480 AM is scheduled to air this program Saturday 9-10 pm and Sunday 8-9 am and 8-9 pm.) This week, Occupy DC faced the possibility … Continue reading

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