Posts tagged with vote

January 18th 2012: SOPA Bill Protest Web Blackout Is In Full Effect

11 comments, 18/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, Propaganda, Protest/Activism, Stranger than fiction, Technology, World News

What are SOPA and PIPA? (No, we're not talking about Kate Middleton's sister.) Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threat... Read more...

Should Amazon, Google & Wikipedia “Nuke” The Web To Stop SOPA?

2 comments, 17/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Technology, World News

Maybe blacking out their Web sites would be over-kill, but the Internet giants could use other joint tactics to kill Stop Online Piracy Act off. With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Congress, at the request of big media, is still considering trying to censor the global Internet in the name o... Read more...

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Mumia Abu Jamal – Toy Soldiers (Read by Ron Kovic)

0 comments, 10/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in .mp3, Audio, Exclusive, Interviews

For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Ron Kovic author of Born on the Fourth of July. According to recent news accounts, shattered and shredded body parts and remains of U.S. servicemen were found in a landfill. Despite political spins, this sobering image is a telling, true-life metaphor fo... Read more...

Who Are The 1%? You Film. You Decide (Video)

1 comment, 09/12/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Video, World News

Inequality has ballooned over the last three decades as some of the wealthiest Americans have enriched themselves at the expense of everyone else. Who are the worst offenders? You tell us. We'll compile your suggestions and hold a vote to decide which ones Brave New Foundation will expose. We have ... Read more...

Beyond The Flash Mobs

1 comment, 12/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

It is hard to watch the news without being confronted with images and stories that disparage young black people again and again. From Philadelphia to Chicago to England, elected leaders and the media represent black youth as being engaged in uncontrollable behavior that necessitate legal interve... Read more...

Mumia Abu Jamal – With Leaders Like These

0 comments, 07/09/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

Mumia Abu Jamal - With Leaders Like These With 'Leaders'Like These ••• [col. writ. 8/20/11 Mumia Abu-Jamal It has taken a while to reach this conclusion, but upon reflection, it is inescapable. Why, after over a half century of the vote and the election of more Black... Read more...

Black Cocaine Dealers Get Long Stints, White Student Gets 6 Months, Retains Right to Vote

6 comments, 11/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Jail, News, Politics As Usual, World News

Ever since the Democrats established the legality of mandatory minimums and three-strike laws under the leadership of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, African Americans have literally had the book thrown at them and the key thrown away. Regardless of circumstances, as convicted felons they a... Read more...

In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights

0 comments, 06/06/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, World News

THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...

U.S. Senate Advances Extension of Patriot Act Wiretap Power

4 comments, 27/05/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in General, mobile, News, Technology, World News

The U.S. Senate voted to advance a four-year extension of provisions of the USA Patriot Act allowing law enforcement to track suspected terrorists with roving wiretaps. The Senate voted 79-18 to move toward a final vote on the provisions, now scheduled to expire at midnight. They would be... Read more...