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Statement On Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
15 mentions — 11 hours ago
Your Post Has Been Launched!Fabulous! Don't forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33.Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement:We are shocked and devastated ...
Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
21 mentions — 10 hours ago
Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los AngelesMichael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.Hastings' ...
Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline | The Nation
The Nation
5 mentions — 14 hours ago
Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday—in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.“It felt strange,” Zarlin said, “to be getting arrested in order to send a ...
Guitar Center: Prices So Low, Employees Can't Survive on Wages | The Nation
The Nation
4 mentions — 19 hours ago
At the end of May, employees at Guitar Center's flagship store in Manhattan overwhelmingly voted to form a union of its 57 retail workers. The national Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) organized the win, marking what the union hoped would be the first of many such ...
The 2013 Nation Student Writing Contest | The Nation
The Nation
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Eight years ago, The Nation launched an annual Student Writing Contest to identify, support and reward some of the numerous smart, progressive student journalists writing, reporting and blogging today.This year, we’re looking for original, thoughtful, provocative student voices to answer this question: It’s clear that the political system ...
Michael Hastings, fearless
video.msnbc.msn.com
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
>>>reporter michael hastingshas died today at the age of 33. michaelwas killed in a car wreck in los angelesearly this morning. it was announced by his employer, buzzfeed, tonight. michael hastingswill be remembered nationally, of course, for his blockbuster story in "rolling stone" magazine in june 2010about the ...
Whose Walmart?: Workers Crash Walmart’s Party | The Nation
The Nation
6 mentions — 1 day ago
Taking inspiration from small strikes and actions over the past few years, OUR Walmart activists struck a note of dissent at the corporation’s annual party.Wal-Mart Strike, October 4, 2012. (Photo courtest of Flickr user Matt Hamilton. Licensed under Creative Commons.) After a parade of drummers, umbrella-twirlers and ...
Sudan: Satellite Images Confirm Villages Destroyed
Human Rights Watch
5 mentions — 19 hours ago
(Nairobi, June 18, 2013) – Satellite images confirm the wholesale destruction of villages in Central Darfur in an attack in April 2013 by a militia leader sought by the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch said today.The images show the town of Abu Jeradil and surrounding villages in ...
Headlines for June 18, 2013
Democracy Now!
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
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Democracy Now!
democracynow.org
3 mentions — 1 week ago
The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is rapidly approaching, commemorating the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. King’s words from that National Cathedral speech ring true today, as we face again the crisis of poverty and hunger.[{"data-clicky-href":"#widget/topics/find","label":"2012 Election","link":"/topics/2012_election","data-clicky-title":"Widget: Find A ...
Rights Groups File Lawsuit Challenging NYPD’s Muslim Surveillance Program as Unconstitutional
New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) - American...
4 mentions — 19 hours ago
June 18, 2013 — The NYPD is routinely violating the civil rights of Muslims across New York City by operating an unconstitutional religious profiling and suspicionless surveillance program, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by New York City residents represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union,
What Brave Girls Want
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 18 hours ago
By the time Melissa Atkins Wardy's daughter celebrated her seventh birthday, the gender stereotype crusader and author of the forthcoming Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, Birth to Tween had (proudly, purposefully) yet to buy her little girl a single item featuring ...
Health Insurance Lobby Gears Up to Defeat Effort to Strengthen Obamacare in California | The Nation
The Nation
4 mentions — 2 days ago
As part of what advocates call the “next step” of the Affordable Care Act, California voters will consider an initiative next year that will empower regulators and consumer advocates to challenge health insurance premium rate hikes.Though healthcare reform, better known these days as Obamacare, gives the government the ...
22 Former Obama Campaign Staff And Donors Arrested Protesting Keystone XL
ThinkProgress
5 mentions — 13 hours ago
On Monday, twenty-two people peacefully obstructed the entrance to the building that houses the State Department’s offices in downtown Chicago. They were then arrested without incident. Last week in London, several protesters were arrested inside the Parliament building after attempting to disrupt a speech by Canadian Prime Minister ...
The Man Behind Moral Mondays
prospect.org
4 mentions — 2 days ago
Since they began in April, weekly “Moral Monday” protests at the North Carolina General Assembly have swelled into a movement gaining national attention. Led by the state’s charismatic NAACP president, the Reverend Doctor William Barber, progressives from across the state have come to denounce a flood of regressive ...
For Libya to end the violence, it needs to shut down the militias
The Globe and Mail
2 mentions — 17 hours ago
From tragedy can come positive change. The Libyan government has that chance, after violent clashes last week between a militia and residents of Benghazi left 32 people dead.The government should use the incident to devise a clear plan for security sector-reform and to clamp down on the country’s ...
'We Steal Secrets' Misses the Leak for the Leakers | The Nation
The Nation
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney's film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.Here’s a recipe for diluting the debate about our surveillance state: start talking about the foibles of the leakers and whistleblowers. Consider the case ...
A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force Feeding Hunger Striking Prisoners
Democracy Now!
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
George Annas,Co-authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine called, "Guantánamo Bay: A Medical Ethics-free Zone?" He is a Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also a professor in the Boston University School of ...
Kansas Bleeds the Middle Class
prospect.org
3 mentions — 19 hours ago
Kansas City is a little bit plainsy, and a little bit Southern, straddling the Missouri-Kansas border. It is an old city, especially compared to others west of the Mississippi, fueled in its early years by farming money and trade from settlers heading west. Kansas City proper is on ...
Five Questions for the Next FCC Chief
huffingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 16 hours ago
Tom Wheeler, the White House's pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, was for years a well-heeled lobbyist for cable and wireless companies. He also served the president's 2008 and 2012 election campaigns as a top "bundler," raising more than $700,000 from undisclosed donors in support of Obama.Many ...
Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes "False" Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate
Democracy Now!
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the NSA surveillance story earlier this month, joins us one day after both President Obama and whistleblower Edward Snowden gave extensive interviews on the surveillance programs Snowden exposed and Obama is now forced to defend. Speaking to PBS, Obama distinguished his ...
Michael_Hastings comments on IAm Michael Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and a writer for Rolling Stone.
reddit.com
7 mentions — 11 hours ago
1.) You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. 2.) When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word "prose," or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.3.) Be prepared to do a lot of things for free. This sucks, and ...
Big "Business" of Spying - Can We Recover Control?
Can We Recover Control?
2 mentions — 17 hours ago
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Why Investors Must Do More Than Divest From Fossil Fuels | The Nation
The Nation
6 mentions — 2 days ago
Colleges, pension funds, and foundations together have trillions of dollars that could be invested in solutions to climate change.Photo by Reuters. Eleven cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, are moving towards divesting from fossil fuel companies. Unity College, Hampshire College, College of the Atlantic, Sterling College, and ...
Breaking: Full House committee transcripts shed new light on genesis of IRS targeting
washingtonpost.com
8 mentions — 15 hours ago
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives — and it appears to confirm that the initial targeting did originate with a low-level employee in the Cincinnati office.It also shows a key witness and IRS screening manager – a self described conservative Republican — denying any communication with the White House or senior IRS officials about the targeting.The ranking Dem on the committee, Elijah Cummings, has promised that the account provided by ...
Glenn Greenwald to Democrats: Where Is the Outrage You Showed over Warrantless Spying Under Bush?
youtube.com
4 mentions — 16 hours ago
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Outraged by NSA surveillance? Call your legislators.
Stop Watching Us
3 mentions — 17 hours ago
Unwarranted government surveillance is an intrusion on basic human rights that threatens the very foundations of a democratic society.Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that. That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in ...
All In — MSNBC
tv.msnbc.com
2 mentions — 1 week ago
The All In with Chris Hayes team puts out a daily call to the Twitter and Facebook communities for the “awesomest things” they encountered on the Internet. Read MoreLess than a month ago, the big question was how much data the Justice Department had collected from journalists' phone ...
US: Protect National Security Whistleblowers
Human Rights Watch
3 mentions — 11 hours ago
The uproar following Snowden’s revelations shows the importance of exposing the scope and conduct of the US surveillance program to public view, and that should temper any government response, whatever else Snowden may yet disclose. The US urgently needs a better system for protecting people who use classified ...
On Glenn Greenwald and His Fans | The Nation
The Nation
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for The Guardian, speaks to reporters at his hotel in Hong Kong Monday, June 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) “Shorter @rickperlstein ‘server,’ does not mean ‘server.’ How much did Big Data pay u to play Judas? Regret buying 1 of ur books.”The message, from ...
RIP Michael Hastings. Here's His Advice to Young Journalists.
Mother Jones
5 mentions — 10 hours ago
RIP Michael Hastings. Here's His Advice to Young Journalists.Michael Hastings, a respected young journalist for Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles Tuesday, according to his boss, BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith.Hastings, who was 33, was perhaps most famous for "The ...
AFL-CIO wants original deal for H-1B workers - Seung Min Kim
POLITICO.com
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
The AFL-CIO is blanketing Senate offices with a list of demands for the Gang of Eight immigration bill, detailing what measures it will and will not support as the chamber continues debating the mammoth legislation.On the approved list for the union: keeping hard-fought labor protections for immigrant workers ...
Comedian Fails to Explain the Dangers of NSA Spying
youtube.com
3 mentions — 20 hours ago
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Ghosts of the Rio Grande
prospect.org
4 mentions — 1 week ago
The path across the border is littered with bodies. Bodies old and bodies young. Bodies known and bodies unknown. Bodies hidden, bodies buried, bodies lost, and bodies found. The stories of the dead haunt the frontier towns from Nuevo Laredo to Nogales, and even deep within the interior ...