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Voices of the 99% Radio examines local D.C. politics and news coverage

Listen to Bullet Points with Navid Nasr on Voices of 99%: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] TheFightBack’s Pete Tucker joined Bullet Points with Navid Nasr on Voices of the 99% for a discussion on the Washington Post’s selective scrutinizing of politicians, … Continue reading

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The Post has favorites and Jim Graham isn’t one of them

The Washington Post has called for the resignation of yet another member of the D.C. Council. And who is the Post going after this time? Is it the longest serving member of the council, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, who chairs the … Continue reading

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D.C. taxpayers get short end of West End deal

By Thomas Hedges – You can find Hedges’s reports at Truthdig. He works at The Center for Responsive Law, founded by Ralph Nader   The non-profit group D.C. Library Renaissance Project (DCLRP) worries that a deal between city officials and developer … Continue reading

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Coming home to save the farm

This article was published in Dirt Magazine and written by Becca Tucker (Pete’s sister) Fifteen miles from the White House grows a variety of Native American red polenta once extinct in the United States. Farmer Nick Maravell has been propagating heirloom seeds … Continue reading

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The Tuskegee Airmen In Their Own Words

Listen to Lt. Col. William Holloman and Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Star Wars” creator George Lucas spent more than twenty years trying to bring the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to the big … Continue reading

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SOPA, PIPA and the Day the Internet Went Black

Today, Wikipedia, the world’s sixth most visited site, is blacked out, as are thousands of others, including Reddit and Boing Boing. The reason? “The U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet,” the online … Continue reading

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