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amendment to remove corporate personhood

Posted on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

Senator Sanders (I) introduced a Constitutional Amendment to overturn Citizens United by affirming corporations are not people, and prohibiting campaign spending by same. Article includes a video that is not subtitled nor does it have a transcript provided (it shows … Continue reading →

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lacking war on poverty, more die

Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

The one war, if we engaged in it, that would save lives: [Audio: English; Captions: auto-decent] While the auto captioning on this has some flubs (poppy is poverty, buy for die, etc) it’s overall good enough to understand what he … Continue reading →

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bernie sanders

Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 at 9:45 am by

If you have some free time (as Sander’s twitter feed wryly notes, “9 hours or so”), you can read the transcript of his filibuster of December 10, 2010 here: Full Congressional Record Transcript of Sanders Filibuster. More info at his … Continue reading →

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this n that

Posted on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 3:00 pm by

Boosting the signal: Guest Post – Carl Siciliano Youth homeless shelters in NYC are taking a severe beating with the budget cuts. Carl Siciliano, the Executive Director of Ali Forney Center describes the magnitude of the problem. If you can … Continue reading →

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filibernie — Bernie Sander’s Filibuster

Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 1:28 pm by

This is going to result in one hell of a set of video clips when all is done. Bernie Sanders has been filibustering against the GOP-Obama tax cuts and he’s on fire. Sen. Bernie Sanders enters sixth hour of Senate … Continue reading →

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