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Occupy the Dream Kicks off in DC: “Occupy 2.0”
“Internet Censorship Affects Everybody”: Rebecca MacKinnon on the Global Struggle for Online Freedom (2)
As protests mount against two controversial internet anti-piracy bills moving through Congress, we speak with Rebecca MacKinnon, author of the forthcoming book, "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle …
Journalist Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes …
Wisconsin Recall Petition Delivery
Delegates from counties throughout Wisconsin marched from the Monona Terrace to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) on Tuesday. They presented the GAB with a few representative boxes of …
Wikipedia, Reddit to Shut Down Sites Wednesday to Protest Proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (2)
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and sixth most visited site in the world, will join websites like the content aggregator Reddit to “go dark” on Wednesday in opposition to the …
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality
Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Winner Take All Politics from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Jon Huntsman Drops Out of the Presidential Race, and More
TRANSCRIPT: Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words (2)
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in …
“Memory is the Active Agent of Collective Social Progress”: Randall Robinson on His New Novel Makeda (2)
“Makeda,” the new novel by TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, is set at the dawn of the civil rights era. The book follows a young man coming of age in …
On Eve of MLK Day, Michelle Alexander & Randall Robinson on the Mass Incarceration of Black America
On this eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we host a wide-ranging discussion with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of …