Excerpt from the legal challenge: The District’s refusal to allow Larissa to wear her NativeAmerican religious regalia at the graduation, while permitting otherstudents to wear comparable expressive secular messages, was aviolation of Larissa’s rights to free exercise of religion and free speechunder the U.S. Constitution and under Arizona law. First word that comes to mind:…
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Indian Child Welfare
image link I’ve been thinking about the overview video I watched yesterday from Turtle Talk. I took a few notes as I listened and hope I got everything straight as I wrote it down. My notes: In 1978, the US Federal Government enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA.) At that time 1/3 of Indian…
Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Call-in Day for Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Please, mark it on your calendars and call in. Julian Assange is charged under the Espionage Act. He is not a spy. He is a journalist. He provided information of public interest to the whole world, not a foreign adversary.” Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Call-in Day for Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange — Rise Up Times
Chris Hedges on Julian Assange and the larger ramifications of his continued persecution. “If [Assange is] found guilty it will effectively criminalize the investigative work of all journalists and publishers, anywhere in the world and of any nationality, who possess classified documents to shine a light on the inner workings of power. This mortal assault…
Glenn Greenwald: What Are the Major Media Sources of Fake News and Disinformation? — Rise Up Times
Be very careful which news sources to trust! What I have started to do to try to discern truth from falsehood is to read multiple sources and take a good look at those sources to see what they might gain from spinning the story the way they do. Then I triangulate them much as a…
#FF — What’s Left
PHOTO PROMPT © LIsa Fox There it sat, unused, isolated; the manifestation of the best efforts of across-the-aisle compromise in both houses. Governor Wilmer had sighed as she scribbled her signature on the bill, a subtle acknowledgment of her complicity, an impotent figurehead of the shambles of a once actualized ideal: representative government. She left…
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore — Rise Up Times
I’ve read Jill Lepore’s work before and know her as a meticulous researcher and an articulate writer. Her essay will take 5 minutes or less to read and is well-worth your time to do so. “It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of…
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