I'm a little confused. Are you (whoever posted this) taking credit for the vandalism? And via Indymedia you are identifying yourselves with protesters in Denver?
Does the term "agent provocateur" mean anything to you?
I don't see that blocking media signals would accomplish anything worthwhile, and if it was attempted, it certainly could create a mainstream-media firestorm of controversy. I can imagine the headline, "Protesters who claim to favor free speech are caught sabotaging the free speech rights of others..."
I think that what we (Indymedia) should aim to accomplish is becoming an effective alternative media source, and try to move beyond some of the shortcomings that we see in the mainstream media. That may mean entertaining a wider range of points of view. It also means that we must recognize when ideas are controversial or ill-conceived and, rather than shut out the person making the suggestion, we must use discussion and reason to reach an understanding of the possible consequences.
Readers must also appreciate that Indymedia sites bend over backwards not to censor (except in the case of hate speech, commercial speech, spam, etc.) That means we may occasionally see suggestions or ideas promoted that many of us do not agree with, or would not support.
maybe next time put the registration table(s) outside of the room/or down the hall from the room, to prevent this from happening again..?
otherwise i would just assume the police are up everyones ass anyway.
. . plan on getting anywhere close to any of the network satellite trucks or dishes? In theory the whole idea could work but you basically going to have to have a long pole and be right next to the truck (like be able to reach out touch the side of the truck and a 15 foot pole) to even maybe be able to get the foil near it. All the national networks uplinks are secured in compounds about the only shot you may have is local media outlets outside the secured area and that will accomplish nothing.
suspended from a balloon or two... or cut the blankets into strips about 2" wide so they look like a fringe with the strips hanging down... or you could make a spark-gap transmitter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter)
I'm one of the engineers working the DNC. Just a heads up, we transmit at seven times the frequency of a microwave oven and up to an order of magnitude more power.
If you get close enough to the dish to try that trick, you stand a far better chance of getting burned then obstructing the signal. However, you are welcome to try. I think it would be a fun experiment to watch.
Do you really think anyone can get close enough to one of those TV trucks to block the signal? Half the trucks have the antennas on telescoping poles from the roof, the others are giant dishes on top of the truck.
Whats more If I do put climb up there and block the signal, doesn't that mean all that radation from the dish is going to cook me like a microwave oven?
in quebec city in 2001, it took a determined mass five minutes to tear down the fence. then again, they were prepared for what followed: they had goggles, bandanas, and gas masks.
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The microwaves which are used in the "active denial system" are a higher frequency than your home microwave oven, they can go through thin foils, and they also heat water molecules (just like microwave ovens). The difference is they work too well, and only heat the first layer of water near your skin. This is where you have most of your nerve endings, and the result is pain. It is this pain which forces compliance.
A true ADS shield then would consist of some layer of water trapped in a sheet (a doggie piddle pad for instance) between you and the beam, with insulation between the handle and the pad... The water in the pad can heat up (and act as a big heat sink) and thus you can go elsewhere with a minimum of damage to yourself.
There is a minimum safe distance (the beam gets hotter per cubic meter of beam as you get closer to the source - commonsense - and strategically you can use this against them. Get close enough and you force them to Choose: turn it off or explain the dead folks to the media.
Likely they would deploy this on long stretches, above and behind a police line to minimize the closest unchallenged approach. Use this as a geographic template for predicting where to find the thing(s). Keep in mind it is essentially a doppler radar tuned for water if you use it at full range, and thus weather people who have these systems MIGHT be able to remotely detect the thing in its operational state. Keep an eye on open source weather doppler sites (cloud tracking sites) during reported use of the device(s).
TASER is DEFEATED, the pulses shorted- out, by wearing a thin conducting layer incorporated into your clothing ! You may incorporate wearing that aluminized mylar material used for emergency space blankets, very very cheap ! The extremely thin layer aluminum coating is HIGHLY CONDUCTING, as effective as wire mesh in shorting out TASER pulses ! This material is quite thin, thus easily incorporated into clothing, even invisibly ! You can even experiment using one or two layers, an inner and outer layer as a suggestion. But one layer is probably effective for most barb strikes. The Aluminized Mylar or ' Space Blanket ' material is sandwiched between layers of clothing, similarly to the way Goretex is incorporated into clothing. Also aluminum foil or metallic window screen will work.
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Every one should show up in a full muslim wardrobe, including prayer mats. Women should be in full burka with male escorts. ;)
If that won't scare the Oakleys off a few well-meaning O supporters, I don't know what will.
If I failed to complete my work 45% of the time (current drop out rate in Denver) I would be lucky to have a job.
This is why we need school choice. I work hard and earn the money to move out of Denver into a good school district, but those that do not are trapped. You want to help the poor, you want all students to have a chance, let them leave the failing systems and find a better path to success, and let them take the tax money with them.
Its so funny to that journalism has become so one sided. You say the protesters blocked the parade route like its just fine no problem to get their point across its ok that they disrupted the parade for everyone else, its ok cause they were making their point. It didn't matter that they were infringing on my civil liberties, right? I didn't come down to listen to them or see them disrupt what should have been an event I could take my kids to without worry. Oh and lets take the up coming DNC, which I have to avoid because so called peaceful (and the peaceful ones are few) protesters what get their point across no matter what, how or who they disrupted. Doesn’t matter that the police have found various drums that contain urine and shards of glass hidden around various places in the area right?
I love the fact in America we have the freedom of speech, (unlike most countries); this is what makes our nation great. But where in the constitution does it state a protest can disrupt everything an everyone around it, even those who don't want to be a part of their cause...what about my freedom to enjoy the event without having a group disrupt the days event? You say peaceful, fine I’m all for peaceful demonstrations. We have accomplished many great things in this nation through protest and marches.
How can the media be so one sided and blame the officers for cretin actions when you have so called peaceful protesters chaining themselves to fire trucks, some add lighter fluid to clothing so that no saws can be used to cut chains, use urine and fesis to cover themselves, throw urine, bricks and shard class at officers. Lets not forget about the fact that for all the peaceful demonstrators, there are the not so peaceful ones who mix in the crowds (like in Seattle) to cause hate and discontent for all...
I was on staff during the time this "incident" took place and John Garon is not guilty of anything except being the object of "Reverend" Thebo's bigoted prejudices. It is SOP for the desk man not to allow homosexuals to stay overnight in the mission. There doesn't have to be any provocation on the part of the guests to get booted out for no reason whatsoever.
There needs to be a year-round shelter in Fort Collins for those in need that is not run by a fascist attitude. If you don't like the homeless and don't care what happens, then you need to find another business for yourself instead of abusing people that can't fight back. Thebo is nothing less than a tyrant and people should know this and demand he either change his attitude toward the homeless or terminate the operation of his "mission."
Go Cynthia. The GP is changing , with more people of color coming into leadership, who are willing to challenge the delecate sensibilities of those liberals who are terrified of alienating the powers that be in the Democratic Party.
For another example, check out the article "The Browning of the Greens" at Chicago Indymedia [ www.chicago.indymedia.org ]
No it was something I through together a few days ago. I was once a doctor but my field was medical anthropology. Chinese Medicine as it was practiced from the third century BCE to the second century CE.
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As someone who works with prisoners in Colorado and people who are either falsely accused or running from bogus charges I have done a lot of research in this area. I have first hand experience as I have spent time in a Colorado prison Freemont Correctional Facility-a max security prison. Convicted of a crime I did not commit.
There was a highway banner protest today at the Fort Collins / Windsor exit and I-25. Highway patrol approached us and we told the officer we are within our rights to hold the banner as long as we don't attach it to anything, it doesn't hang over the freeway and we are not blocking traffic. After initially telling us we had to leave, he later agreed with us that we were with in our rights to be there. (He checked with his supervisor to confirm what we told him).
The protest is about the re-defining of Corporations with the same rights as human beings with the ability to flood our political system with money thereby corrupting democracy. May 10th is the 127th anniversary of the Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad decision established that a railroad corporation possessed equal protection "rights" identical to living human beings under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The 14th Amendment was a post-Civil War decision specifically intended to apply to freed slaves.
Move to amend Fort Collins will continue to organize with the aim of establishing a grass roots movement that will eventually be able to purge our political system of the corruptive / corrosive influence of money. Many people involved in Move to amend and Move to amend Fort Collins have been involved in the Occupy movement and realize that Corporate power is only one aspect of a sick and dysfunctional system that must be changed.
Pentagon Loses Court Case over Refusal to Release Names of SOA/ WHINSEC Graduates
Oakland, CA – In a rare reflection of judicial independence, United States District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton from the Northern District of California ordered the Pentagon to release the names of who trains and teaches at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC), a U.S. military training school for Latin American soldiers that has been connected to torturers, death squads and military dictators throughout the Americas. Human rights activists had taken the U.S. government to court over its refusal to release the information, and won.
Read the court ruling here: SOAW.org/judgment
SOA Watch compiled the names, course, rank, country of origin, and dates attended for every soldier and instructor at the SOA/ WHINSEC from 1946 to 2003. After researchers exposed many cases of known human rights abusers attending the WHINSEC (despite claims that the "new" school was committed to human rights), and shared this research with Congressional decision-makers, the Department of Defense (DOD) refused to disclose any future information about students or teachers at the WHINSEC. The human rights community and the U.S. Congress did not agree with the decision. In 2008 and 2009, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill demanding that the DOD release this information. President Obama signed this measure into law. However, SOA/ WHINSEC supporters in Congress managed to slip in the caveat that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates could issue a waiver to ignore the public's right to know and refuse to release the information, if he "determines it to be in the national interest." Predictably, Obama's Secretary of Defense used the waiver to deny human rights organizations and the public access to any more information.
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Yesterday, two holdout vulture funds, including Paul Singer’s NML Capital, were in a New York Federal court versus Argentina. The Financial Times has dubbed the proceeding the “‘the trial of the century’ in sovereign debt restructuring.” After the hearing, judges at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that will issue their ruling in the coming weeks.
Jubilee USA Network is bringing attention to the effect that this case could have on poor countries: “If these vulture hedge funds win, it will mean they will more aggressively target poor countries in fragile financial recovery. If we win, it will mean that it will be harder for vulture funds to target the monies that develop social infrastructure in many poor countries,” said Eric LeCompte, Jubilee USA Network’s Executive Director.
The faith community and other groups, organized by Jubilee USA, held a vigil in concern for poor people affected by vulture funds during the proceeding outside the hearing. Vigils also took place in London and Buenos Aires.
In 2001, when Argentina defaulted on roughly $81 billion, NML Capital purchased some of Argentina’s debt on a secondary market. When Argentina defaulted, they restructured with some of their creditors in 2005 and 2010 but holdout creditors, led by NML Capital, rejected the proposal and sued Argentina for the full amount in NY courts – thus, naming NML Capital a holdout vulture fund. Vulture funds buy the debt of poor countries or countries in financial recovery for pennies on the dollar and then sue to make as much as a 400% profit off the backs of the poor. Jubilee USA Network introduced bipartisan legislation in 2009 to stop vulture funds from making a profit off of poor countries.
Pro-choice Production Offers New Venue for Social Justice in an Engaging Activism Based Theater Experience
“Words of Choice,” a dynamic pro-choice theater piece is bringing its show to New York City this March in honor of Women’s History Month and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In addition to the two performances, the show is available via live-streaming to audiences across the nation and the globe.
“Words of Choice” weaves together dozens of stories of reproductive rights through poetry, spoken word, oral history, theater and journalism. It is performed by three actors, and showcases a variety of serious, comedic and contemplative pieces. As part of the first-ever WiredArts Fest, Words of Choice will be showcased to hundreds of activists with the shared goal of reproductive and social justice.
“Women’s rights and reproductive freedoms are still under attack. As activists and ambassadors of change, everyone involved with Words of Choice is committed to moving public sentiment and influencing policy makers. We created this event because the use of theater is a way to transmit the pro-choice message, opening hearts and minds, and empowering the movement for women’s full equality and rights,” said Cindy Cooper, creator of Words of Choice.
“Words of Choice” will be performed on March 1 at 7 pm EST and March 2 at 3 pm EST at The Secret Theater in Long Island City. As part of the WiredArts Fest, the live streaming audience will be able to participate simultaneously with tweeting, instant messaging, photo shots and Facebook. After the shows a panel discussion will take place to discuss the pieces and the state of reproductive and social justice.
"I don't agree with only one of the words you say, but I will defend to the death your right to do so!"(Voltaire),
It is controversial the relationship between freedom of expression and the degree of development of societies.
Many seek to justify the repressive character of the current regimes as a price that must be paid for achieving progress.
Throughout history, however, people fought and died for the right to speak, to question, to publish.
Specifically we found, to our great relief, that the more developed societies are precisely those who managed broader and unquestioned freedom of expression.
However, there are difficulties everywhere, because everywhere there are those who use free speech as a weapon of war, war itself, political war and commercial war.
It is no coincidence that in many countries today, people debate legislation on the subject. This is the case of our neighboring republic, Argentina, to name just one instance.
In Brazil we have a history of abuse and arbitrariness: from the most vile censorship, like that practiced during the "military dictatorship*", even dishonest and virulent attacks carried out by sectors of the press, against institutions, citizens and even banks.
Who does not remember the school closed in São Paulo, for alleged sexual abuse against children? Or a known and respected politician who had his reputation soiled and took years and many slow lawsuits to reestablish the truth? And a certain large bank, labeled as "broken" by a magazine of great circulation, to then face really great difficulties caused by those malicious news and to end (badly) sold?
The White House Tuesday rebuked Israel for officially endorsing 1,500 new Jewish residences in Arab East Jerusalem, saying the action makes suspicious Israel’s pledge to peace talks and an independent Palestinian state. A number of European Union countries also condemned the Israeli move.
“We are deeply disappointed that Israel insists on continuing this pattern of provocative action,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, according to the Washington Post. “These repeated announcements and plans of new construction run counter to the cause of peace. Israel’s leaders continually say that they support a path toward a two-state solution, yet these actions only put that goal further at risk.”
The Palestinians recently said that they expect all of the UN Security Council members, excluding the US, to denounce Israel's fresh announcements of constructing new homes in East Jerusalem.
The Obama administration’s statement delivered an unusual but hard blow to Israel, its top Midle East ally. However, Israelis think the US would not support a Security Council resolution or statement.
"(T)he confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive, and costly -- to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities. That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country." -- Susan RiceSusan Rice, letter to President Obama
CNN is reporting that Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has “voluntarily” withdrawn her name from consideration as Hillary Clinton’s successor as secretary of state.
Rice has been under heavy, repeated, unrelenting, and unwarranted criticism from Republicans and right wing media over statements she made following the September attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Those attacks took the lives of the Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other CIA operatives.
Her withdrawal came in the form of a letter dated Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 to President Barack Obama. Here is the complete text of Rice's letter to the President. Obama promptly described Rice as "an extraordinarily capable, patriotic, and passionate public servant."
Clinton has said in the past that she would relinquish her office immediately upon the confirmation of a successor.
Come to Durango, and take a ride in one of Animas Transportation's cabs with a driver who is ostensibly from Philadelphia. Ask him where an interested party could obtain cocaine. This driver served seven years in canon City for dealing cocaine while a taxi driver in Aspen. after being paroled, he moved to Durango, and immediately began selling cocaine here. He made the mistake of losing his wallet near me one night: I looked through it and saw that he has innumerable high limit credit cards. Taxi drivers don't normally qualify for 100,000 dollar limit cards...Do they?
Watch him. Buy coke from him. Better yet, rip him off or blackmail him. Who's he gonna tell? The cops?
Coloradans, can you help Mainers fend off a Denver-based Big Gas attack on Penobscot Bay? DCP Midstream LLC, a BIG natural gas port, pipeline & megatank operator, is close to getting its OKs to transform and industrialize our bay's estuary, heart of the lobster ecosystem, by establishing the east coast's biggest Liquified Petroleum Gas terminal in the our bay's brackish estuary. Can you help us with actions in Denver?
We must confront Power at its lair. But we cannot afford to send a delegation of Mainers to Denver to shame DCP outside their 25th floor corporate headquarters in the Republic Plaza building at 370 17th St. Suite 2500, Denver.
I'm a little confused. Are you (whoever posted this) taking credit for the vandalism? And via Indymedia you are identifying yourselves with protesters in Denver?
Does the term "agent provocateur" mean anything to you?
I don't see that blocking media signals would accomplish anything worthwhile, and if it was attempted, it certainly could create a mainstream-media firestorm of controversy. I can imagine the headline, "Protesters who claim to favor free speech are caught sabotaging the free speech rights of others..."
I think that what we (Indymedia) should aim to accomplish is becoming an effective alternative media source, and try to move beyond some of the shortcomings that we see in the mainstream media. That may mean entertaining a wider range of points of view. It also means that we must recognize when ideas are controversial or ill-conceived and, rather than shut out the person making the suggestion, we must use discussion and reason to reach an understanding of the possible consequences.
Readers must also appreciate that Indymedia sites bend over backwards not to censor (except in the case of hate speech, commercial speech, spam, etc.) That means we may occasionally see suggestions or ideas promoted that many of us do not agree with, or would not support.
Crowd at P. center dispersing, many going on to other events. Legal observers report no incidents with police.
Funk the War rally set to start at 2pm at Union Station
Amy Goodman, Jeremy Schaill and others scheduled to speak.
maybe next time put the registration table(s) outside of the room/or down the hall from the room, to prevent this from happening again..?
otherwise i would just assume the police are up everyones ass anyway.
March now at P. Center. Police in riot gear at gates. Other units in area, also equestrian units at the scene.
Protesters peaceful.
. . plan on getting anywhere close to any of the network satellite trucks or dishes? In theory the whole idea could work but you basically going to have to have a long pole and be right next to the truck (like be able to reach out touch the side of the truck and a 15 foot pole) to even maybe be able to get the foil near it. All the national networks uplinks are secured in compounds about the only shot you may have is local media outlets outside the secured area and that will accomplish nothing.
suspended from a balloon or two... or cut the blankets into strips about 2" wide so they look like a fringe with the strips hanging down... or you could make a spark-gap transmitter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter)
I'm one of the engineers working the DNC. Just a heads up, we transmit at seven times the frequency of a microwave oven and up to an order of magnitude more power.
If you get close enough to the dish to try that trick, you stand a far better chance of getting burned then obstructing the signal. However, you are welcome to try. I think it would be a fun experiment to watch.
Do you really think anyone can get close enough to one of those TV trucks to block the signal? Half the trucks have the antennas on telescoping poles from the roof, the others are giant dishes on top of the truck.
Whats more If I do put climb up there and block the signal, doesn't that mean all that radation from the dish is going to cook me like a microwave oven?
in quebec city in 2001, it took a determined mass five minutes to tear down the fence. then again, they were prepared for what followed: they had goggles, bandanas, and gas masks.
Clarification: Fences now surround Pepsi Center not the Colorado Convention Center
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The microwaves which are used in the "active denial system" are a higher frequency than your home microwave oven, they can go through thin foils, and they also heat water molecules (just like microwave ovens). The difference is they work too well, and only heat the first layer of water near your skin. This is where you have most of your nerve endings, and the result is pain. It is this pain which forces compliance.
A true ADS shield then would consist of some layer of water trapped in a sheet (a doggie piddle pad for instance) between you and the beam, with insulation between the handle and the pad... The water in the pad can heat up (and act as a big heat sink) and thus you can go elsewhere with a minimum of damage to yourself.
There is a minimum safe distance (the beam gets hotter per cubic meter of beam as you get closer to the source - commonsense - and strategically you can use this against them. Get close enough and you force them to Choose: turn it off or explain the dead folks to the media.
Likely they would deploy this on long stretches, above and behind a police line to minimize the closest unchallenged approach. Use this as a geographic template for predicting where to find the thing(s). Keep in mind it is essentially a doppler radar tuned for water if you use it at full range, and thus weather people who have these systems MIGHT be able to remotely detect the thing in its operational state. Keep an eye on open source weather doppler sites (cloud tracking sites) during reported use of the device(s).
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TASER is DEFEATED, the pulses shorted- out, by wearing a thin conducting layer incorporated into your clothing ! You may incorporate wearing that aluminized mylar material used for emergency space blankets, very very cheap ! The extremely thin layer aluminum coating is HIGHLY CONDUCTING, as effective as wire mesh in shorting out TASER pulses ! This material is quite thin, thus easily incorporated into clothing, even invisibly ! You can even experiment using one or two layers, an inner and outer layer as a suggestion. But one layer is probably effective for most barb strikes. The Aluminized Mylar or ' Space Blanket ' material is sandwiched between layers of clothing, similarly to the way Goretex is incorporated into clothing. Also aluminum foil or metallic window screen will work.
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Every one should show up in a full muslim wardrobe, including prayer mats. Women should be in full burka with male escorts. ;)
If that won't scare the Oakleys off a few well-meaning O supporters, I don't know what will.
If I failed to complete my work 45% of the time (current drop out rate in Denver) I would be lucky to have a job.
This is why we need school choice. I work hard and earn the money to move out of Denver into a good school district, but those that do not are trapped. You want to help the poor, you want all students to have a chance, let them leave the failing systems and find a better path to success, and let them take the tax money with them.
Its so funny to that journalism has become so one sided. You say the protesters blocked the parade route like its just fine no problem to get their point across its ok that they disrupted the parade for everyone else, its ok cause they were making their point. It didn't matter that they were infringing on my civil liberties, right? I didn't come down to listen to them or see them disrupt what should have been an event I could take my kids to without worry. Oh and lets take the up coming DNC, which I have to avoid because so called peaceful (and the peaceful ones are few) protesters what get their point across no matter what, how or who they disrupted. Doesn’t matter that the police have found various drums that contain urine and shards of glass hidden around various places in the area right?
I love the fact in America we have the freedom of speech, (unlike most countries); this is what makes our nation great. But where in the constitution does it state a protest can disrupt everything an everyone around it, even those who don't want to be a part of their cause...what about my freedom to enjoy the event without having a group disrupt the days event? You say peaceful, fine I’m all for peaceful demonstrations. We have accomplished many great things in this nation through protest and marches.
How can the media be so one sided and blame the officers for cretin actions when you have so called peaceful protesters chaining themselves to fire trucks, some add lighter fluid to clothing so that no saws can be used to cut chains, use urine and fesis to cover themselves, throw urine, bricks and shard class at officers. Lets not forget about the fact that for all the peaceful demonstrators, there are the not so peaceful ones who mix in the crowds (like in Seattle) to cause hate and discontent for all...
I was on staff during the time this "incident" took place and John Garon is not guilty of anything except being the object of "Reverend" Thebo's bigoted prejudices. It is SOP for the desk man not to allow homosexuals to stay overnight in the mission. There doesn't have to be any provocation on the part of the guests to get booted out for no reason whatsoever.
There needs to be a year-round shelter in Fort Collins for those in need that is not run by a fascist attitude. If you don't like the homeless and don't care what happens, then you need to find another business for yourself instead of abusing people that can't fight back. Thebo is nothing less than a tyrant and people should know this and demand he either change his attitude toward the homeless or terminate the operation of his "mission."
http://richardthebo.blogspot.com/
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and all her Trust Fund Baby friends. Including UFPJ, Code Pink, Colorado Green Partyclock
Pie does taste good, does it not. As in pie for Medea at the Atlanta event last year?
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Go Cynthia. The GP is changing , with more people of color coming into leadership, who are willing to challenge the delecate sensibilities of those liberals who are terrified of alienating the powers that be in the Democratic Party.
For another example, check out the article "The Browning of the Greens" at Chicago Indymedia [ www.chicago.indymedia.org ]
Thanks Ringo.
No it was something I through together a few days ago. I was once a doctor but my field was medical anthropology. Chinese Medicine as it was practiced from the third century BCE to the second century CE.
The original was footnoted but the footnotes did not come through when I pasted it in. If you ever want to know sources let me know. I footnote everything, always.
I like to write, though sometimes I can get overly detailed. If you want content I have lots of stuff like this written for a verity of audiences. As a former professor I do tend to be overly scholarly but much of what I write is less scholarly then this article.
As someone who works with prisoners in Colorado and people who are either falsely accused or running from bogus charges I have done a lot of research in this area. I have first hand experience as I have spent time in a Colorado prison Freemont Correctional Facility-a max security prison. Convicted of a crime I did not commit.
Again thank you so much for your help.
Phil