G8 Moved to Camp David, Protesters Declare Victory. In a brief written statement from the White House, President Obama unexpectedly announced Monday afternoon that the upcoming G8 summit previously scheduled to be held in Chicago would instead occur at the presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland. A building firestorm of controversy surrounded the summits; including threats by anarchist organizations to disrupt life in downtown Chicago; concerns about violence and civil unrest harming ongoing city business; gridlock and the inability to get from one place to another in Chicago. The Christian Science Monitor calls the move "an unusually late location change for a large and highly scripted international summit" that came "with little explanation from the White House. " The declaration appears to have been made with little consultation except among the highest echelons of the White House administration.
Obama wanted the leaders of the world's richest nations to have a more "intimate place to meet and speak freely," ABC reports. McClatchy | News Politics Nation World Washington Economics Environment Opinion. Rolling Stone Politics. The Raw Story. By David EdwardsThursday, March 1, 2012 16:06 EDT The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has apologized after punishing a 12-year-old girl for speaking her Native American language at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Shawano, Wisconsin.
Miranda Washinawatok explained to WGBA that she wasn’t allowed to play in one basketball game after she spoke in her native Menominee language to two students in her 7th grade class. “It means I love you,” Washinawatok said, recalling that her teacher, Julie Gurta, reacted with anger. “She sort of threw her hands down on her desk and said don’t be talking like that. How would you like it if I started talking Polish?” On Wednesday, the Green Bay Press Gazette revealed that while Gurta “did not accept blame for her actions,” the diocese had apologized for “a breakdown of communication.” Watch this video from WGBA, broadcast Feb. 29, 2012. (H/T: Yahoo News) Copyright 2012 The Raw Story David Edwards David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. Political Fuck You | Fuckyou.com. By james, on October 9th, 2013% “Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,” Bachmann said.
“When we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this: that these days would be as the days of Noah.” By james, on October 7th, 2013% So, Imagine that the company you work for held a poll, and asked everyone if they thought it would be a good idea to put a soda machine in the break room. Now imagine that Bill in accounting voted against the soda machine. Bill continues to campaign, and management continues to ask the employees, and every time, the answer is in favor of the soda machine. What should we do??? Answer: Fire Bill and get someone who will do the fucking job. Bonus: Bill tells everyone that he was willing to “Negotiate”, to come to a solution where everyone got their payroll checks, but only so long as that negotiation capitulated to his demand to remove the soda machine.
Dear Tom, Progressives Guide to Social Media 1: Intro. Social Media is going to be one of the central battlegrounds in the 2012 election cycle in the US. The corporate right understands this very well, and they have invested mass sums from their war chest to send in legions of mindless astroturfers to try to control content aggregation and spin. It is essential for genuine grassroots supporters of real change and reform to take an active role on this front to fight back. If you believe that all men and women are created equal, that every person deserves to start out on a level playing field in life to succeed or fail on their own merits, if you believe that science, reason, education, and truth are valuable in this world, and that freedom requires ordinary people to stand up and fight, then these guides are for you. It is more important than ever for progressives to take an active role across the social media spectrum. The chart above reflects the overall user base of the main social media sites discussed in this series.
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