Somerville Voices » Freedom of Information furthering investigative journalism These are Melissa McWhinney’s notes from the Boston Globe’s Freedom of Information conference back in May. I wish I’d known it was happening and could have gone. Lots of great advice and resources in the notes.
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More Arrests on Coal River Valley as Actions Against Mountaintop Removal and Coal Sludge Dams Continue
[Editor's note: two of my friends are among those arrested in these actions to stop the these dangerous mountain top removal operations. ---BG] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 23, 2009 CONTACT: Sludge Watch Collective 304-854-7372 COAL RIVER VALLEY, W.Va.– This morning, eleven activists in two civil disobedience actions were removed by state police. As part of [...]
Peoples Temple and Reverend Jim Jones
By John Dorsey Due, Jr. November 18, 2008 The nation will pause and reflect on the massive “Revolutionary Kool Aid Suicide” of almost a 1000 Americans in their Jonestown refuge in Guyana and the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan, thirty years ago, on November 18, 1978. This could be my final ten year acknowledgment of [...]
Eyes on the Prize
This is Nicole. She is one of the many talented photographers whose work I follow on flickr. The same night that the country voted for a Black president, majorities of voters voted against gay families and the rights of gay people in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. Nicole is angry and so am I. We [...]
Amy Gluckman on the Air
Dollars & Sense co-editor Amy Gluckman appeared on Your Call, a show on radio station KALW. Appearing with Amy was Lawrence Pintak of Arab Media and Society and Glenn Ford from Black Agenda Report. Amy discussed what is being left out of economic news coverage and was great (as were Pintak, discussing the fall of [...]
Census Must Count Prisoners in Their Home Communities
The Prison Policy Initiative and State Senator Eric Schneiderman have brought together an in impressive coalition of organizations and legislators to call on the US Census Bureau to change its policy on counting prisoners—and to kick off a national advocacy campaign on the issue. “Counting prisoners as residents of the prison districts where they do [...]
Update from Ash-Lee on Barnes & Noble
Ash-Lee sent me this update to her original post on Johnson City, TN Barnes & Noble and the exploitative books it is pushing as African American literature. A friend of mine that is currently an employee at Barnes and Noble read this blog (specifically where I write about the store management being ok with taking [...]
If Jesse Can Run the Dublin Marathon
You can help raise money for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership by sponsoring my good friend Jesse on his run in the Dublin Marathon. Jesse Edsell-Vetter of Somerville will run the 26-mile Dublin Marathon Monday, Oct. 29, and has pledged to raise $4,000 to support Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership’s efforts to end homelessness. Metropolitan Boston [...]
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