How To Stop The FCC and Big Media Consolidation

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Telecom Amnesty Bill - One Nation Under Surveillance

Telecom Amnesty Bill - One Nation Under Surveillance — See my post here at the Care2 Election Blog.

War Top Priority For Latino Voters - Not Immigration

This is a guest post by Anne-Marie of Backyard Beacon.  Thank you Anne-Marie (cross-posted at The Political Voices of Women)

Troop pullout may deliver the Latino swing vote, writes La Opinión, the Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles. “Editors of La Opinión assert the independence of the Latino electorate, saying they weigh the candidates and their proposals instead of voting blindly for either party.”

“The war figures highly in Latino voters’ concerns, above immigration. Nearly half (49 percent) prefer an immediate pullout of troops. About the same number (48 percent) know someone personally affected by the Iraq war; in 26 percent of cases the person is a family member,” according to a poll conducted by Hispanic media group ImpreMedia and market research firm Avanze.

In the five states with the highest Latino populations (California, Illinois, New York, Florida, and Texas), thirty-four percent of registered Latino voters do not report a preference for either a Democratic or Republican candidate.

Brown For A Greener America

This is a guest post from Anne Marie at Front Yard Herald. Thank you Anne Marie.  (cross-posted at The Political Voices of Women)

Who is Elaine Brown?

Green Party presidential contender — and advocate of “change that will not be e-mailed, rapped in a CD or YouTubed.”

Her mission: “to humanize this society.”

How?

Brown proposes a program that can be easily supported by the immediate transfer of the billions of dollars spent on war—one trillion dollars last year alone.

 

“Beyond a call for the immediate, unconditional and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and war machinery from Iraq and Afghanistan, my platform focuses on the repeal of the ‘three-strikes’ crime laws across the nation,” she says. “In addition, the ‘three-strikes’ crime laws overturned the 100-year-old juvenile justice system, allowing for the inhumane housing of children in adult prisons, in violation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.”