Originally published on The Journal Times • December 26, 2012 • Christine Neumann-Ortiz Martin Luther King Jr. Day is an opportunity to come together to celebrate freedom, equality, and what we can do together to defend democracy. After pressure from … Continued
Free speech is essential to democracy, but many college campuses are faced with a debate on whether they will continue to support free speech over fighting for inclusive, safe environments for all. Several incidents of hate speech over recent months … Continued
Nearly every Friday we want to offer a collection of media pieces that we’re finding provocative, vital, persuasive, prophetic, genius, infuriating, mind-blogging, and other adjectives that gesture at all things thought-provoking. Some of these posts will, of course, focus on … Continued
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has a unique opportunity to stamp out antisemitism every chance it gets. A fantastic op-ed was recently published calling out the OWS opponents who are focused, not on countering antisemitism, but on using incidents … Continued
Earlier this month, Rush Limbaugh came as close as he ever has to the truth—that is, a half-truth. A week before the Republican debates, Limbaugh cautioned conservatives from media diversions. Summarized by one fervent writer at the anti-immigrant Center for … Continued
What does the immigrant community have that neither the Republican Party nor the Tea Party has? A backbone! After Arizona passed racist S.B. 1070, hundred of thousands of people took to the streets throughout the country in protest on May … Continued
Eric Boehlert posted this article on Media Matters for America on March 23, 2010. Watching Fox News personalities recently come unglued as the realization set in that (surprise!) Democrats might actually have the votes to pass health care reform — … Continued
When I came across Republic Broadcasting Network, billed as “The most provocative programming on the internet”, I immediately thought it was going to be another conservative talk network like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. But after digging deeper and finding … Continued
Tara Lohan, a senior editor at AlterNet, wrote in an article this week about Rush Limbaugh’s attacks on environmentalist Andrew Revkin. Once again, Rush Limbaugh is stoking the fires of hate. Yesterday he told millions of his listeners: “Mr. Revkin, … Continued
A good article from Karl Frisch at Media Matters details more insanity from the right-wing media nuts. It’s that time of the year again. Parents are busy preparing their children for the first day of school while children are busy … Continued