Danny Glover and Saul Landau 2:30 PM, departure time the most excruciating part of visiting Gerardo Hernandez. A prison guard announced: “Visiting hours are over.” Gerardo lined up against the wall with the other inmates. We stood with wives, children and mothers. Finally, the electronically controlled, heavy metal door opened. Gerardo held up a triumphant fist. We did the same. He stayed in Hell (13 years ...

Court Hearings Set for Affirmative Action Lawsuits in MI & CA Hearing for lawsuit against Prop 209 (ban on affirmative action in California) scheduled at 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco February 13, 2012 Hearing for lawsuit against Prop 2 (ban on affirmative action in Michigan) scheduled at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on March 7, 2012  The presence of thousands of students a ...

As we approach the holidays it is worthwhile to note that No Child Left behind is being applied to Santa's elves.  Yes, Santa's elves.  Blaming incompetent elves for world poverty and and not being able to compete with Chinese elves, is part of the movie -- 'Waiting For Super-elves" and of course part of the rhetoric of  'Race to the Slop'; the corporate scheme put together by the Obama administration under ...

source: Carl Herman US military take an Oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The US Constitution refutes the so-called “National Defense Authorization Act” provisions for US military to seize people in America (here, here, here).  The 5th and 6th Amendments of the US Constitution promise that if the government is to seize you, they dam ...

source: Carl Herman Occupy has all the facts that the 1% “leadership” in the US have committed massive crimes centering around war and money. But how does one frame such an issue at the family holiday table? This brilliant 6-minute video addresses this challenge! Happy Holidays: may 2012 be your family and your best year yet, and may that be true for every new year. <iframe width="640" height="360" src=" ...

Two parts of this possible answer deserve some consideration: (1) Are evidence-based scientific approaches from the high school level to a university, college, or distance learning university level objective, effective, or both? and (2) If so, why does science fail education reform? How did the largest and most aggressive federal education initiative, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), garner bipartisan support u ...

video live at source: http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/all-reasons-for-war-on-iran-are-emperor-has-no-clothes-obvious-lies The US and Israel lie for war with Iran in two key areas of propaganda that you are responsible to understand if you want a US government operating UNDER the law: Iran’s president never physically threatened Israel. All of Iran’s nuclear material is fully accounted for pe ...

As Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings ramps up his investigation of for-profit college CEO pay, stock options and stock sales and their relationship to student outcomes, he may want to pay particular attention to the Universityof Phoenix.  In 2011 The Sperling family ( founders of University of Phoenix) cashed in $127 million in stock, while theUniversityof Phoenixwas ranked as having the lowest graduatio ...

By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes “Los niños nacen para ser felices.” -- José Martí On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen claimed the 1960-62 journey from Cuba to the United States of 14,000 plus Cuban children "was made possible because of a deal a priest in the Miami diocese [Father Bryan Walsh] ... worked out with the US State Depar ...

By Michael Collins We don’t have a substantial cushion between today's climate and dangerous warming. James E. Hanson The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James E. Hansen, announced the results of break through global warming research last week. The earth's temperature is rising at a much quicker pace than previously anticipated according to research by the nation's preeminent climate sci ...