Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Nationwide Day of Protest Demanding Impeachment

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Impeach07 is a Grassroots Campaign to Immediately Impeach Cheney and Bush and calling for a day of protest on April 28th. 

Battle In Seattle

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Photographs I shot during the 2001 WTO Protests have been incorporated in to the website design for the forthcoming movie Battle In Seattle.

Congresspedia

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Fifteen Current Members of Congress now under investigation.

Hacking Democracy

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

HBO will be showing the documentary “Hacking Democracy” throughout November. The film follows Bev Harris (of blackboxvoting.org) in her effort to expose the flaws and vulnerabilities in our nation’s electronic voting systems, and to bring about election reform.

Bush seeks to Pardon himself

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Buried deep inside the War Crimes Detainee bill recently passed by the House, is a provision that would pardon President Bush and his administration for violation of the Geneva conventions.

Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets’ worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends…

Wikipedia founder launches political site

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection.

Best phone call EVER

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

AMERICAblog reader Bill writes in about his phone call to Senator Crapo’s office this afternoon.

Keeping a Democratic Web

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else.

Colbert

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

“Colbert crossed the line,” said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.