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Autumn is gorgeous in England and the U.S., but there's one big difference between the two.

After tweeting on the #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag, these women got an earful.

Australia's new surveillance laws have Edward Snowden's full attention.

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Uncertain Times Ahead for California’s Aging

Uncertain Times Ahead for California’s Aging Pandora Young:Retirement insecurity is a nationwide problem, but the issue is compounded in California due to the high cost of living. READ MORE

SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2015 Historic Nightmare or the Loss of a Football Game—a Little Perspective Please Walter Moss: As a historian and septuagenarian, though not from personal experience, I know a little of such nightmares. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Holocaust, yes. But a football game? READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Creating Safe and Affirming Homes for Transgender Foster Youth Frank McAlpin: A safe and affirming “placement” or home for a trans foster youth will help a young person feel comfortable with who they are. READ MORE Obama Won’t Admit the Real Targets of Russian Airstrikes Gareth Porter: It is astonishing that at this late date, anyone in the media could still be seriously suggesting that the CIA somehow managed to turn the “moderate” Syrian rebels into a powerful offensive force threatening the Assad regime in the north. READ MORE Uncertain Times Ahead for California’s Aging Pandora Young:Retirement insecurity is a nationwide problem, but the issue is compounded in California due to the high cost of living. READ MORE Censoring Books Is Suppressing Freedom of Expression Walter Brasch:Hundreds of Iranian publishers, editors, and printers didn’t attend. That’s because Iran boycotted the convention. The reason? Salmon Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, was the keynote speaker. READ HERE

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Finally, Democratic Presidential Candidates Say Good Things about Marijuana Legalization

Finally, Democratic Presidential Candidates Say Good Things about Marijuana Legalization Posted: 17 Oct 2015 09:04 AM PDT In years past, candidates totally ignored the failed war on drugs and the harms of marijuana prohibition By Tony Newman / AlterNet  During the first Democratic debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became the first major presidential candidate to say that he would support legalizing marijuana if given the chance. Asked whether he would support an upcoming ballot measure on legalization in Nevada, Sanders said: "I suspect I would vote yes. And I would vote yes because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for non-violent offenses. We have a criminal justice system that lets CEOs on Wall Street walk away and yet we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. I think we have to think through this war on drugs, which has done an enormous amount of damage. We need to rethink our criminal justice system and we've got a lot of work to do in that area."   [Read more...] shared from San Diego Free Press Lilia Lopez: From Logan Heights to the United Nations Posted: 17 Oct 2015 09:37 AM PDT Introducing our new series 'Latinos in San Diego' By Maria E. Garcia If you have not met eighty-seven year old Lilia Lopez, wife, mother, friend, feminist and activist, you have missed out on a woman who has influenced many people. She has worked diligently to improve the lives of women, not only in San Diego, but all over the country and Mexico and Europe. Lilia says that I am responsible for her becoming involved in Chicano issues. While I was a student teacher at Lowell Elementary School in the 1970s, I invited her to attend a meeting with a group of moms. She says that was when she understood the injustices the women were facing. She couldn’t sit back and do nothing. Lilia did not need me or anyone else to take the leadership role in so many issues that affected Latinas.   [Read more...] Excerpt From Sunshine Noir II: My Days at the Door Posted: 17 Oct 2015 09:06 AM PDT Editor's Note: We'll be publishing excerpts from Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, an anthology of local writing about San Diego over the coming weeks, starting with the chapters written by SD Free Press writers. As City Works Press co-editor Jim Miller says in his introduction: "...San Diego is still a city in need of a literary voice, a cultural identity that goes beyond the Zoo, Sea World, Legoland, and the beach.  With Sunshine/Noir II we persist in our romantic, perhaps Sisyphean, effort to address this need and expose the true face of “the other San Diego.”  To buy a copy of Sunshine/Noir II or any other San Diego City Works Press book go here. By Doug Porter The San Diego Door and its antecedents were a big part of the alternative media scene in America’s Finest City over a eight year period starting in October,1966 when the Good Morning, Teaspoon published its first edition. By December, 1971, when I first climbed up the steps of the paper’s Victorian stick mansion at 2445 Albatross Street just north of downtown, the paper had gone through ‘free love’, hippie druggie and counterculture phases and a half-dozen names. It had evolved to become a publication with anti-establishment news and alt-culture reviews, featuring powerful graphics and color.   [Read more...] Finally, Democratic Presidential Candidates Say Good Things about Marijuana Legalization Posted: 17 Oct 2015 09:04 AM PDT In years past, candidates totally ignored the failed war on drugs and the harms of marijuana prohibition By Tony Newman / AlterNet During the first Democratic debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became the first major presidential candidate to say that he would support legalizing marijuana if given the chance. Asked whether he would support an upcoming ballot measure on legalization in Nevada, Sanders said: "I suspect I would vote yes. And I would vote yes because I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for non-violent offenses. We have a criminal justice system that lets CEOs on Wall Street walk away and yet we are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. I think we have to think through this war on drugs, which has done an enormous amount of damage. We need to rethink our criminal justice system and we've got a lot of work to do in that area."   [Read more...]

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Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA

Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA How much comfort should medical consumers take from the words “FDA approved”? In judgment call after judgment call involving the prescription blood thinner Pradaxa, which has been named as a suspect in thousands of patient deaths, the FDA took a lax or permissive approach, a Project On Government Oversight investigation has found. Read our new report U.S. Embraces Conditional Aid for Afghanistan Beginning to impose conditions on our aid to Afghanistan may help incentivize systemic changes within the Afghan government, especially in the areas of sexual abuse prevention and anti-corruption. Read more Who’s Ripping Off the Government Now? The Government! The General Services Administration charges other agencies fees when they use GSA-established contracts. Those fees have provided a slush fund to GSA that exceeds $1 billion. Read more From the World of POGO Tell President Obama to Veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) The NDAA contains budget gimmicks to inflate Pentagon spending beyond the legal caps and several provisions that actually weaken oversight of the Pentagon’s $612 billion budget. It also fails to modernize our antiquated system of protections for military whistleblowers. Take action Beth Daley Casino Night Please join us Wednesday, October 21 for a Speakeasy Casino Night in DC. Proceeds from this event will support the Beth Daley Impact Fellowship Fund and help POGO nurture a new generation of government accountability advocates. Purchase tickets or support the fellowship

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DFA Live: I want to talk about "Saving Capitalism" with you

Friend --

During my book tour for "Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few", I've heard two polar opposite questions about the title:

1. Those who think capitalism is perfect ask, "Why does it need saving?"
2. Those who think capitalism is broken ask, "Why save it?"

It's a debate that has raged for decades. We're forced to place our trust in the "free market" or in government -- but I believe this is a false choice.

The so-called "free market" is in fact a series of rules agreed upon and enforced by government. We should be asking who influences these rules and who benefits from them, because these policies have helped to create historic levels of income inequality.

Will you join me for a national conference call hosted by my friends at Democracy for America to discuss this critical issue and other hot topics, including the Democratic and Republican presidential primary battles?

Click here to RSVP for a special DFA Live call on Tuesday, October 20. We'll talk about my new book and the big three myths that perpetuate inequality, including what you can do -- and what presidential candidates can do -- to bust these myths.

Right now the cards are stacked in favor of the super rich. Big corporations and billionaires get bankruptcy protections, but no such rules exist for students overburdened with debt. Trade agreements carve out benefits for big pharmaceutical companies and big tobacco without helping American workers.

If our government worked properly we could change these rules and build an economy for the many, but the top 1% have used their economic power to place a stranglehold on our political system.

We must make government and the market work for us, rather than only a few at the top. Please join me for a critical call on how we can exert the power that should be ours.

During this call, I will discuss the the most important economic and political debates raging in America right now as well as take your live questions about what's on your mind. Click here to RSVP and join me for DFA Live on Tuesday, October 20 at 8pm ET.

I'm really looking forward to talking with you on Tuesday -- it's going to be a lot of fun. Together, driven by DFA's relentless focus on income inequality, we can take this movement to the next level and build an economy that works for everyone.

Robert Reich
Former Secretary of Labor

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