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Real Change Happens Off-Line

Real Change Happens Off-Line
Millennials need to be activists face to face.
by Sally Kohn

anonymous – July 1, 2008 – 9:31pm
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The Baseless, and Failed, ‘Move to the Center’ Cliche

The Baseless, and Failed, ‘Move to the Center’ Cliche

by Glenn Greenwald

Republican Nancy Johnson of Connecticut was first elected to Congress in 1982, and proceeded to win re-election 11 consecutive times, often quite easily. In 2004, she defeated her Democratic challenger by 22 points.

anonymous – June 30, 2008 – 5:49pm
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Crime Is Falling - But Our Obsession With Locking People Up Keeps Growing

Crime Is Falling - But Our Obsession With Locking People Up Keeps Growing
Wealth, and the desire to preserve it, is what drives citizens of rich nations to demand an increasingly punitive justice system
by George Monbiot

anonymous – June 24, 2008 – 6:53pm
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ACLU Welcomes UN Independent Expert on Extrajudicial Executions to US

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 16, 2008
3:09 PM

anonymous – June 16, 2008 – 10:09pm
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Sen. Mike Frerichs' Bondage to the Forces of Evil

You didn't read about this in the News-Gazette. Their editorial board usually tries to paint Democrats in a bad light at the drop of a hat. However, they also have a policy of silencing substantive discussion on any aspect of the drug war that deals with promoting enlightened public policy.

nightwatch – June 16, 2008 – 9:10pm
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Your Brain on $4 a Gallon Gas

Your Brain on $4 a Gallon Gas
by Martha Rosenberg

Bumper-to-bumper gridlock didn’t do it. Nowhere-to-park didn’t do it. Taxes on city driving didn’t do it. But $4 a gallon gas is finally driving people to not drive anymore say news reports.

anonymous – June 6, 2008 – 10:18pm
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As the 2008 session winds down, Illinois legislators consider what to do with the medical marijuana bill

Marijuana Policy Project
anonymous – May 19, 2008 – 7:23am
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Iraq War Costs Illinois More than $28 Billion So Far

Iraq War Costs Illinois More than $28 Billion So Far

Poposed Spending Coul Add More Than $7 Billion More

anonymous – May 15, 2008 – 1:20pm
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Illinois Second Worst State for Racial Disparity in Drug Law Enforcement

It's embarrassing. It's damning. It's the reality that many of our citizens face, in Illinois and in Champaign County. Yet it's the one place where conservatives refuse to confront the harsh judgment that these damning statistics on outcomes that indict a failed, corrupt, and ineffective public policy.

anonymous – May 6, 2008 – 7:01pm
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Pardon of The Haymarket Martyrs (updated 2008)


John Peter AltgeldIn May of 1893, John Peter Altgeld addressed the graduating seniors at the University of Illinois: "Let sunlight into dark places and the poisons collected there disappear...

roknich – April 29, 2008 – 10:33am
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