SDS Founder, Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy from Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street

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NoisyRoom Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques DemocracyNow: DemocracyNow.org - We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. The … [Read more...]

Times Takes Heat for Pro-Terrorist Article

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Accuracy in Media Ilena Silverman, one of the story editors at The New York Times Magazine, is defending publication of a story urging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to release Weather Underground terrorist Judith Clark from state prison. The article portrayed Clark, who was involved in the murders of three law enforcement officers, as a remorseful mother anxious to spend time with her daughter. She is serving … [Read more...]

New York Times Promotes Freedom for Terrorist

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Accuracy in Media Sara Bennett, an attorney for convicted communist terrorist Judith Clark, is optimistic that her client will benefit from a New York Times Magazine article advocating her release from prison. “Did I think they did a good job for my client? Yes I do,” she said in a telephone interview. She said she is hoping for a meeting with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to ask for clemency for … [Read more...]

The Osawatomie Coincidence

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New Zeal Why would Barack Obama choose to give a controversial speech attacking American capitalism in Osawatomie, Kansas? Hang on? Where have I heard that name before? Osawatomie? ....back in the '70s? Weather Underground terrorists... Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Didn't Obama used to hang out with those guys? I remember! Osawatomie was the publication of the Weather Underground! No, surely its a … [Read more...]

The Ayers Brothers Connection: Coaching #OccupyChicago, Calling for School ‘Occupations’

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New Zeal Crossposted from Big Government by Trevor Loudon Former Weather Underground terrorist leader, and long time colleague of president Barack Obama, Bill Ayers is actively supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement in his home town of Chicago – while his education activist brother, Rick Ayers, wants to see the movement extended to the nation’s schools. In an October 16 interview with the … [Read more...]

Red Reps 13: Georgia’s Socialist State Senator, Nan Orrock

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New Zeal Red Reps 12 here. One of the reddest state politicians in the US South is Georgia State Senator Nan Orrock. Orrock has been a State Representative in the Georgia House of Representatives since 1987 and a State Senator since 2006, representing inner-city Atlanta neighborhoods. She worked for ten years for passage of the Georgia Hate Crimes Act and continues to work on health, civil rights, … [Read more...]

Literary Detectives Deconstruct Obama, Find Literal Fraud

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Sometimes when no one is looking, the most delightful wildflowers grow out of cracks in the sidewalk. Someone found this sunflower and brought it to our attention. No, we didn't make this video or solicit it. It grew on its own.  Here's a spontaneous thank you to movieskool for creating "The Literary Detectives" (4:16 min.).   Gulag Notes:  Senior beatniks  -- smooth, urban jazz -- and Deconstructing … [Read more...]