Tourists arriving in New Orleans for the long Mardi Gras weekend will find the city loaded with law enforcement and furious local residents who say that the cops aren't doing anything to halt the city's soaring murder rate.
An excerpt from the Start Making Sense section "Understanding the Election." Thirty-four-year-old Soares ran on a platform unapologetically opposed to the draconian "Rockefeller drug laws" in November, and became New York’s Albany County’s first African-American district attorney.
The RNC attacks America Coming Together for hiring people with past felony convictions, then hires Republican bad boy – and convicted felon – Don King to lead public relations in the African-American community.
The day after Super Tuesday, California teenagers demonstrated what it's going to take to get money out of politics -- direct action. Over 150 teens were arrested for civil disobedience in San Francisco and thousands more walked out of middle and high schools to protest the passage of Prop. 21, the most draconian juvenile justice legislation in the country. Though these youth activists lost in Tuesday's vote, the battle has sparked a new pro-active campaign against the prison industrial complex.
