Stories by Donnell Alexander
Tune in to Air America's "The Laura Flanders Show" tomorrow night to hear Lakshmi Chaudhry of AlterNet and Adam Werbach of Progressive Film Club discuss Start MakingSense. SAT., JUNE 18, 6pm PST | 9pm EST....
Posted on Jun 17, 2005
The Violence Against Women Act of 2005 was introduced yesterday morning in the House of Representatives, and the Senate version now has 18 co-sponsors. Domestic violence prevention advocates and Sheila Wellstone Institute representatives continue to...
Posted on Jun 17, 2005
"Do you know what the U.S. interrogators are doing in our name?" asks hilzoy of Obsidian Wings. It's been more than a year since we saw snapshots of the Abu Ghraib "torture scandal," but we...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
As Rep. John Conyers held hearings in Washington to discuss the Downing Street Memo, muckracking journalist Greg Palast has submitted his own testimony to the Congressman from England. [Shakespeare's Sister live-blogged the Conyers hearings.] What...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Evelyn Hernandez and Jeff Weise. If you know who they are, you get mucho points in ThinkProgress' pop quiz on the bias of American media. Hernandez disappeared five months after Laci Peterson, and was also...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Interesting: an account of the conservative Washington Times' recent piece about Morgan Reynolds' theory that the World Trade Center was destroyed from an "inside job."Government conspiracy theories, anyone? The WTC thing might be slightly outrageous...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Over at TPMCafe.com, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero has posted his take on the House vote last night that repealed part of the PATRIOT Act."Ever since 9/11, the pro-Patriot Act posse has echoed the same...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Gawker calls out Time Magazine for showing just how downtown they are: "When we learned that Time magazine would be asserting its hip-osity through a faux-underground marketing campaign, we almost fainted from the resulting combination...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Well, that's it for me -- it's been lovely spending the week in the blogosphere with you all. Thanks to everyone who wrote in all week, and to the rest of the AlterNet staff, who...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
The National Commission on the Voting Rights Act is holding hearings across the country. The goal of the National Commission is to write a comprehensive report detailing discrimination in voting since 1982, the last major...
Posted on Jun 16, 2005
Over the past year, the hip-hop feminist movement has congealed -- somewhat magically, writes Julianne Shepherd at Cowboys 'n' Poodles. "About a year ago, Spelman College initiated a boycott of Nelly for his graphic, misogynistic...
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
The Bush Administration is cuckoo for virginity, chastity and abstinence, so Arianna Huffington has a new pledge for them to take on: "All administration officials should take an abstinence pledge not to whore themselves out...
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
It seems our family man Cooney has already found a new job for the fall. Josh Marshall reports: "Canned for falsifying data about global warming? Or just reporting back to central command after an assignment...
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
I really can't say anything more to this... ThatColoredFella calls it "Selective Intelligent Design." Disclaimer: this was generated with the Church Sign Generator. Thanks, Bryan! (ThatColoredFella)...
Posted on Jun 15, 2005
Microsoft recently deployed a new internet portal in China, but decided not to tickle the Chinese regime by allowing words like "democracy," "freedom" and "human rights." Rebecca MacKinnon sums up the essence of the problem...
Posted on Jun 14, 2005
Cindy Sheehan lost her son in Iraq, and ridiculed Bush for saying that it's 'hard work' comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq. "Hard work is seeing your son's murder on...
Posted on Jun 14, 2005
SurveyUSA released its popularity contest for US Senators; Barack Obama (D-IL) has the highest approval rating of any U.S. Senator and John Cornyn (R-TX) has the lowest. Says Taegan Goddard's: "It's particularly interesting to note...
Posted on Jun 14, 2005
Despite having been denied a room on Capitol Hill by the reigning Republicans, Rep. John Conyers is moving ahead with holding hearings on the Downing Street Memo on Thursday at the DNC headquarters. Starting tomorrow,...
Posted on Jun 14, 2005
Left Coaster gave SMS a fabulous review this weekend -- check it out here. Words that are music to this grrl's ears: "Well, I've just finished reading Start Making Sense and I can say that...
Posted on Jun 14, 2005
The neocons seriously can't claim the anti-war movement as fringe anymore -- 6 in 10 Americans want the troops to come home, according to a new Gallup poll. Who's on board? None other than Walter...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald thought he'd come up with a great name for his new film: "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" ... but then language framer George Lakoff wisely pointed out that people will...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
The leader of a New York based fundamentalist group suggests all the gay folk should be labeled, just like cigarettes have warning labels. "There is a real good reason that this is beyond the pale,"...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
It took over a century, but the Senate finally passed a resolution denouncing the lynchings of African-Americans. AMERICAblog wonders, tho, who the 20 Senators were that didn't sign on to co-sponsor the bill. "In the...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
Two items of note to bloggers, longtime and newbies: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a legal guide for bloggers. Cory Doctorow writes, "EFF has released a long, comprehensive, accessible guide to the law and...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
... according to Gary Hart, who wrote an interesting piece over at the Huffington Post a couple weeks ago. Election reform, anyone?...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
We all know that it's sometimes hard to get motivated to Do Something when you feel like you're all alone. Now there's a new way to find other folks who share your beef: PledgeBank! It's...
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
Michael Kinsley decided to give the Downing Street Memo a necessary media boost this weekend with a big "so what?" column that set off a series of responses from Kevin Drum, Juan Cole and others....
Posted on Jun 12, 2005
It would seem the Democratic Party is working hard to woo single women, but they haven't scored even a first date. Undoubtedly, single women are one of the largest voting demographics; they comprised 23% of...
Posted on Jun 12, 2005
Rob McKay, Taco-Bell heir, philanthropist and progressive activist, is one of the rich guys blowing the whistle on the Bush tax cuts. Says Rob: "The latest stomach-turning development in our nation's saga of economic stratification...
Posted on Jun 12, 2005
Fudging environmental statistics in governmental reports evidently leads to the desire for a simpler life -- Philip Cooney resigned at the end of last week. Gristmill is taking bets on how long it takes Cooney...
Posted on Jun 12, 2005
PEEK's editor, Evan Derkacz, is taking a well-deserved vacation this week. In the meantime, I'll be filling in along with other members of the AlterNet staff. Evan will be back on Monday, June 20th....
Posted on Jun 12, 2005
Evan's got the scoop over on Peek, but check it out: the Democrats are scheduling hearings about the Downing Street Memo. (That's the one that shows there was plenty of nefarious planning of the Iraq...
Posted on Jun 10, 2005
A few months ago, journalist Rose Aguilar departed from the bubble of the Left Coast (as my dad calls California) and went out to do what many hand-wringing liberals said we should all do: go...
Posted on Jun 10, 2005
NYC culture king, Andy Horwitz, is running for mayor. He's created a new political party called the Blog Party, and is now working on getting his 7,000 signatures to get on the ballot come November....
Posted on Jun 9, 2005
Just a reminder for our New York readers and friends: we're having a simply fabulous party for SMS at Pioneer Bar tonight. Arianna Huffington is going to be there. I'm going to be there. Are...
Posted on Jun 8, 2005
Tireless voting rights activist/expert Mark Ritchie of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade and National Voice is looking into running for Secretary of State for Minnesota. "National Voice gave me the passion to make sure...
Posted on Jun 8, 2005
I'm going to kick off a series of interviews in the next few weeks with local folks who are effecting change in their neighborhoods, communities and towns. Who fits that description in your world? Drop...
Posted on Jun 6, 2005
fter listening to Arianna Huffington's speech on Thursday morning at the Take Back America conference, I realized that I, too, had fell victim to letting the Iraq War slide off of my radar. We need...
Posted on Jun 3, 2005
One down, and a few more to go! Fill My Pills Now let us know that, as a result of direct consumer pressure, CVS Pharmacies has released a new policy prohibiting pharmacists from denying women...
Posted on Jun 2, 2005
Check this out: I learned over at Common Dreams that Citgo is a marketing and refining firm for the state-owned oil company of Venezuela... the only democratically elected top-oil-producing country in the world. And President...
Posted on Jun 1, 2005
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