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On “NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt” Pete and Harry Jaffe Discuss D.C. Budget
Wednesday, Pete joined Examiner columnist Harry Jaffe on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt on TBD/Ch8 to discuss the D.C. budget. 85 percent of District residents support higher taxes on the District’s highest income earners in order to avoid cuts to services, … Continue reading
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Voices From the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston: Sally Castleman and Judy Alter of Election Defense Alliance
LISTEN TO SALLY CASTLEMAN AND JUDY ALTER [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “At the present time, something like 97 or 98 percent of our votes are counted by machine which means we’re not only having a … Continue reading
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Voices from The National Conference for Media Reform in Boston: Shirley Kressel, Muckraker
LISTEN TO SHIRLEY KRESSELL [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Shirley Kressel was unable to find work as a landscape architect in Boston due to her activism. While Kessel asked too many questions for her chosen profession, … Continue reading
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Voices from The National Conference for Media Reform in Boston: Jonathan Simon’s Open Letter Calls On Journalists to Cover the Republicans’ Ongoing Rigging of Elections
LISTEN TO JONATHAN SIMON [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 In an open letter, Jonathan Simon, executive director of the Election Defense Alliance, asked that “every journalist and Media Reformer here in Boston” stop turning a blind … Continue reading
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Ban the Box, End the Discrimination, Part II
“Individuals released from jails and prisons are at high risk for being homeless,” said Debra Rowe, acting executive director of Returning Citizens United, at a March 11 hearing of the D.C. Council’s Committee on Aging and Community Affairs, chaired by … Continue reading
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Ban the Box, End the Discrimination, Part I
You’re holding me hostage to a crime that I committed almost twenty years ago. – Edward King, returning citizen Am I to ever gain the status of a citizen? – Antoine Ali-Moore, returning citizen “My own philosophy is that if … Continue reading
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Virginia’s Pro-choice Health Clinics Targeted by Legislature
LISTEN TO ROSEMARY CODDING: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “It’s time to speak out against a small group of zealots, just as Christ did,” said Rosemary Codding, founder of the Falls Church Healthcare Center, a pro-choice … Continue reading
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NAACP President Ben Jealous on Prisons, Organizing and More
LISTEN TO BEN JEALOUS [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “We can’t be the country that we want to be so long as we keep using prisons to solve every social problem,” said NAACP President Ben Jealous … Continue reading
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Children and Media
LISTEN TO MARY ROTHSCHILD, PART 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “It’s not about the kids. It’s really about us,” said Mary Rothschild, founder and director of Healthy Media Choices. “[Studies] found [that] at the end … Continue reading
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Is D.C.’s HPV Vaccine Mandate a Mistake?
LISTEN TO EMILY TARSELL [Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 Last April, as Emily Tarsell began her trek back to Northern Maryland following her testimony before the D.C. Council, she said, “I came down to try to … Continue reading
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