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The Right, the Left and the Ugly: Fear and Loathing in White America
Submitted by Southern Shift on Mon, 2010-03-15 01:24 Authored by Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Original Article
When President George Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first, unsuccessfully, attempted to ram a Bank Bail Out through the U.S. House in late September 2008, only one-third of Republicans and three-fifths of Democrats voted for the measure. The Congressional Black Caucus was opposed, 21 to 18, with the more progressive CBC members mostly voting No. Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich asked, "Is this the U.S. Congress or the board of directors at Goldman Sachs?" Two-thirds of the GOP Caucus bucked their president.
Earthquake in Chile: Why are people looting? How devastated is the region?
Submitted by Southern Shift on Tue, 2010-03-02 08:26 Authored by Davey D
Many of us know and love the group Rebel Diaz which features brothers RodStarz and G1 along with Lah Tere. All of them met in Chicago which was their homebase before relocating to the Bronx.. Rod and G1 are from Chile.
The group was in Chile one week before the devastating 8.8 earthquake. I caught up with Rod the day after the quake to see how his family was doing.. At that time he was concerned about his 90 year old grandfather and a number of other relatives who were still MIA..
