September 15, 2009 Dear Chancellor Reed and Honorable Trustees: Let me respectfully introduce Read more…
Commentary
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The Progressive</p>
<p> My favorite rightwing nuts are the parents who kept their kids home Tuesday so they wouldn’t have to hear the President of the United States give a speech urging them to stay in school. I’m surprised there wasn’t a Republican speech in response, extolling the virtues of truancy.</p>
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, Executive Secretary-Treasurer<br>
California Labor Federation</p>
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<p> Who could possibly argue that low-income, isolated, and minority communities don’t deserve access to doctors? Who could argue that California should uphold an outdated statute that has resulted in the state leading the nation in its number of citizens who can’t get access to a doctor?</p>
<p>New America Media</p>
<p> By the time President Barack Obama announced the end of the Cash for Clunkers program last Thursday, Americans had turned in more than 457,000 polluting cars and trucks for nearly $3 billion in government cash.</p>
<p> The program was “successful beyond anybody’s imagination,” Obama said. “And we’re now slightly victims of success because the thing happened so quick, there was so much more demand than anybody expected, that dealers were overwhelmed with applications.”</p>
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<p> By now, CNN’s Lou Dobbs, with his single-minded obsession over all things anti-immigrant and his bizarre embrace of the loony birther movement, is well known for trafficking in disturbing, misleading, and often inaccurate garbage. Escaping under the radar of many, however, are his close associations with an organization that has been described by experts as a “hate group.”</p>
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Sen. Ted Kennedy did right by immigrants — and by Barack Obama.</p>
<p> I met Kennedy in 2005, when a group of activists in the immigration reform movement went to Washington to huddle with the staff of our staunchest ally.</p>
<p> As new citizens working to pass comprehensive reform, we felt his commitment and passion for the cause at our Washington meetings.</p>
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Being a good Samaritan should not be a crime. Nor should preventing immigrants from dying of dehydration.</p>
<p> But on Aug. 11, Walt Staton of No More Deaths, an Arizona-based humanitarian organization, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service for “knowingly littering.”</p>
<p>Assemblymember 78th District</p>
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<p><em><strong> Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.<br>
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The 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United States contains only 39 words. But those words forever changed the way politics was practiced in our nation and provided a level of equality that was heretofore denied an entire group of citizens.</p>