— General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), Founding Chair, and Alma J. Powell, Chair, America’s Promise Alliance We want to talk to you about our nation’s high schools for a moment. In 2008, the Department of Education required all states, for the first time, to use
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Table reservations are coming in briskly, so I encourage everyone to purchase their tickets and/ or tables soon! Tickets may be purchased in any of the following ways: Send payment to address listed on invitation Give payments directly to Nyla Howell, Kimi
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The details are out on the the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and critics say the trade deal is worse than they feared. The TPP’s full text was released Thursday, weeks after the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations—a group representing 40 percent
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The proposal for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a test of whether the people of the United States can communicate something critically important to each other that the major media corporations do not want communicated. For years I’ve joined with others in
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— Anna, Victoria, Bobby, Manny, and the rest of the team Officials from Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s administration have raided Planned Parenthood health centers across the state, demanding the confidential records of women who visited the health centers, including ultrasound records.
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— by CAP Action War Room Paul Ryan’s Record Indicates We’re In For The Same Broken GOP Policies After much chaos and dysfunction, the House of Representatives elected Representative Paul Ryan from Wisconsin to be Speaker of the House. The Republicans have
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WHEN: Saturday February 20, 2016 TIME: 11 a.m. PST (Doors open at 10 am for same-day registration) What are the Nevada Caucuses? The Nevada Caucuses are gatherings of neighbors, organized by the Nevada State Democratic Party (NSDP), where Democrats join others in their
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Republicans, in both the House and the Senate, are currently colluding to gut Healthcare Reform and deny actual healthcare to millions of women across our nation using a process called Reconciliation. Reconciliation is an expedited budgetary process that offers some procedural advantages:
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Joe Biden will Not Run for President Swipe Right for Hillary Bernie Sanders Explains Social Security O’Malley on the Need for New Leadership Clinton vs. Sanders vs. O’Malley On Fixing Banking How do we fix Wall Street, a.k.a. “the banks”? How
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Psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, who thus far escaped accountability, face charges of ‘cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; non-consensual human experimentation; and war crimes.’ — by Lauren McCauley, staff writer The two psychologists credited with creating the brutal, post-9/11 Central Intelligence Agency
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