During the last week of September, Monsanto’s lobbyists took over Capital Hill to prevent it from being obligated to judicial oversight. This was another clause someone tried to add into the bill to avoid the government shutdown, but it didn’t make it. It was called the Monsanto Protection Act.
The following post is from one of our other sites, It’s Not Political, It’s Just Life. RETROSPECTIVE: WHERE WERE YOU? This week marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28th, 1963. Like all Black […]
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Last week, the culmination of a year’s worth of protests, meetings, and press conferences came to a head when the Chicago Public School Board went ahead and voted to close 50 schools at the end of this school year. This […]
Am I a conspiracy theorist? I don’t know; I’ll say what the formerly blind man said to his interrogators — I once was blind, but now I see. Call it what you want.
In this city, parks are named for various people we’ve never heard of, and most don’t care who they were or why the recognition. But who was Vivian G. Harsh?