Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Schools not Jails: LA community says no to Props 6 & 9; community event on October 30th
Press release of a community event against Prop 6 and 9 (more info on Prop 6). Sponsored by InnerCityStruggle. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCHOOLS NOT JAILS East LA & South LA Communities Unite to Get-Out-the-Vote for November Election WHAT: Press conference to announce Get-Out-the-Vote efforts in East Los Angeles and South Los Angeles for Election Day, [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Prop 6: The (Un?)Safe Neighborhoods Act
Props 5 and 6 are hugely important propositions for Californians. Prop 5 is likely one of the more innovative prison and drug reform policies, and Prop 6 essentially is more “tough on crime” which translates to more prisons, more overcrowding, more people being sent to jail for longer sentences. One of these will get my [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Check out my piece on Proposition 5, at LAist
I write for LAist.com, a rad website about all things Los Angeles. The site gets tons of hits and spans a wide array of topics. I profiled Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, which is being voted on by Californians this November 4th. I learned quite a bit about the California prison system through [...]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Colin Powell endorses Obama; speaks truth to power
One of the most respected military figures of the Republican Party endorsed Obama yesterday. He spoke eloquently, and he systematically broke down every argument and tactic that the McCain campaign has used. Full transcript here. He talked about the politics of unity versus division, spoke about domestic policy issues and supreme court judges even though [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in culture,education,obsession2008,press this,strategy and tactics by anjali
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Envisioning Health Care Justice
(cross-posted at Cure This) I just received an email from The Gesundheit! Institute in West Virgina (run by Patch Adams and friends) — they’ve put out a call for applicants to their 2008-2009 Health Care Justice Gathering in West Virginia. These folks are non-traditional thinkers and dreamers, in every sense. I love the questions they’ve [...]
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Obama: health care is a “right”, slams McCain’s plan
(Cross-posted at Cure This) It’s so exciting that health care is receiving top attention in the presidential election this year. The past few weeks have shown an unprecedented focus on the two major party presidential candidates’ visions of health care issues. The fire quotes of this past week on health care were these two by [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
The Los Anjalis electoral map prediction
UPDATE (Sat Nov 8th): I HAD A DIFFERENT MAP on this post, it looks like the folks at dailykos changed all maps to the actual count after the election. My actual map on October 13th was bluer — it included all the states that obama won, in addition to predicted wins for Obama in Montana, [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
What does fiscal conservative mean anymore?
Some perspective on this whole fiscal conservative thing: National Debt when Jimmy Carter arrived at the White House: $660 billion. Added during Carter’s four years: $337 billion. Added during Ronald Reagan’s eight years: $1.6 trillion. Added during George H. W. Bush’s four years: $1.6 trillion. Added during Bill Clinton’s eight years: $1.5 trillion. Added during [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
The first presidential debate. In one minute.
Very well done. Brilliant, in fact. One of the best videos of this election. Brought to you by the gentle folks at 236.com.
