THE TORTURE AND DEATH OF ARCHIMEDES TRAJANO

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The torture and death of Archimedes Trajano

When Trajano asked a question about Imee’s appointment as director of an organization, he was kidnapped, interrogated, and tortured to death by military intelligence personnel. Share this:Fac…

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Hey, Here’s An Idea! Let’s Sexualize A God-Awful Disease That Kills and Maims Thousands of Women!

Hey, Here’s An Idea! Let’s Sexualize A God-Awful Disease That Kills and Maims Thousands of Women! Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:20 AM PDT By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams  Today we mark the low point of the breast cancer industrial complex's already sketchy Pinktober - the month wherein insatiable capitalism touts spending money on all things pink "for the cure" - with National No Bra Day, the semi-pornographic, useless, entirely counter-intuitive "holiday" that calls for women to let their (blessedly healthy) breasts flow free in the name of ill women who are "scarred, radiated, burned, nauseated, and fighting for their lives." No Bra Day, notes one observer, is "the latest way to do nothing about breast cancer."   [Read more...]

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Lt. Gov. Newsom’s Gun Violence Initiative Draws Predictable Fire Posted: 16 Oct 2015 10:51 AM PDT By Doug Porter Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference yesterday, rolling out details of a proposed ballot initiative aimed at reducing gun violence in California. The setting for the announcement was San Francisco’s 101 California St. office building, site of a 1993 mass shooting. The measure, co-authored by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, includes provisions of bills that have stalled at the state Capitol or were vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown in recent years. Owners would be required to dispose of weapons with high capacity magazines grandfathered in after the 1999 ban. Ammunition sellers would be licensed and required to do point-of-sale background checks on every purchase of ammunition. A process would be established to seize guns from people prohibited from owning them because of their criminal records and federal authorities would be automatically notified of each addition to the state’s databased on prohibited firearms owners. Needless to say, gun groups are locking and loading.   [Read more...] North Of The Fence: It’s All About The San Diego-Tijuana Border Posted: 16 Oct 2015 09:52 AM PDT By Barbara Zaragoza/ SouthBayCompass The Times of San Diego reported that former Arkansas governor and Presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, visited Border Field State Park on Saturday, October 10th. Standing alongside former congressman, Duncan Lee Hunter, Huckabee talked about illegal border crossers, saying: “They’re not coming to make beds and pick tomatoes. They’re coming to sell drugs. They’re coming to commit crime and to bring the mayhem that they have in their hearts upon the American people.” Huckabee didn’t cite his sources. The statement was interesting because more than 68% of the 1.6 million people living in Tijuana legally cross the border at least once a year (sometimes once a week); they have in their hearts a desire — to shop. They spend at least $6 billion a year, or more than $1 of every $8 in retail sales in San Diego. (Check page 7 of the linked report.) That means legal, peaceful Tijuanese put a heck of a lot of sales tax dollars into our economy each year.   [Read more...] Turista Libre Teams Up With Tijuana Photography Festival Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:52 AM PDT Turista Libre tour of Tijuana Photo Festival captures border town’s moment of change By George Howell What better way to get to a photography festival than to sit in an old school bus with the artist-organizers and a handful of curious Americans, listening to booming dance music while the eastern hinterlands of Tijuana whiz past your window? On Saturday, October 3rd, I hopped on board the bus tour co-sponsored by Turista Libre, the Tijuana-based tour operator, and the coordinating team of the modest, but highly ambitious First International Festival of Photography Tijuana (FiFT). As artist Rebecca Goldschmidt told me, “We don’t just want to take people to the sites where the festival events are taking place. We want a dialogue.”   [Read more...] Geo-Poetic Spaces: Bodysurfing Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:23 AM PDT By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes Skimming glassy waves Beaded strands of water fly From crests, closing lips The nosediving sun ascends Into heaven once again   [Read more...] Hey, Here’s An Idea! Let’s Sexualize A God-Awful Disease That Kills and Maims Thousands of Women! Posted: 16 Oct 2015 08:20 AM PDT By Abby Zimet / Common Dreams Today we mark the low point of the breast cancer industrial complex's already sketchy Pinktober - the month wherein insatiable capitalism touts spending money on all things pink "for the cure" - with National No Bra Day, the semi-pornographic, useless, entirely counter-intuitive "holiday" that calls for women to let their (blessedly healthy) breasts flow free in the name of ill women who are "scarred, radiated, burned, nauseated, and fighting for their lives." No Bra Day, notes one observer, is "the latest way to do nothing about breast cancer."   [Read more...]

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Tell the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to End Live-Animal Trauma Training

TWEET LIKE +1 THIS DONATE NOW FEATURED Tell the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons to End Live-Animal Trauma Training Despite the availability of humane and educationally superior human-patient simulators, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) continues to cut holes into the throats, chests, and limbs of live animals in a surgical training course offered throughout Australia and New Zealand. Most other countries that teach the course have switched to using the popular TraumaManand other high-tech human simulators. Urge RACS to stop using animals in trauma training immediately. TAKE ACTION Rescued Camels Discover That They're Soul Mates A life spent enduring miserable conditions and being forced to provide cheap thrills nearly killed teenage camels Waheed and Tracy. But their rescue by PETA-supported Indian animal relief organization Animal Rahat gave them both a new life—and love. WATCH THE VIDEO Double Your Impact—Help Us Stop Cruel Animal Tests PETA scientists are helping to create a future in which modern, non-animal tests mean that no animal will be abused or killed in a laboratory. Your support during our special matching campaign can help make this future a reality. PLEASE GIVE TODAY! New Wool Investigation Reveals Lambs Mutilated, Sheep Kicked and Hit With Electric Clippers on Argentinian Sheep Farm Once again, PETA has exposed cruelty on a sheep farm. Shearers were seen hitting sheep with electric clippers, slamming them into the hard floor, and kicking and standing on them. Wool supply company Chargeurs has cut ties with the farm, but it continues to sell wool from other farms. Watch the footage, then speak up for sheep by urging Chargeurs to sell only cruelty-free materials and letting the company know that animals are not ours to wear. ACT NOW Molly Shannon Walks Mike White, and They Help Dogs Everywhere Many people take their dogs out for a stroll and end up spending that time chatting on their cell phones or tugging on the leash and rushing the pups along to make it back home a bit faster. But it's their walk! In this adorably funny video, Molly Shannon and Mike White illustrate the do's and don'ts of walking with your best friend. SEE THE VIDEO Daisy Sour Cream and Cottage Cheese: Calves Torn From Their Mothers, Sick and Struggling to Breathe PETA's investigation of Daisy Farms revealed that cows were kicked, whipped, and jabbed with pens or a knife. Workers were seen twisting their tails—which can cause severe pain and even break the bones inside. "You gotta do what you gotta do," shrugged one worker. Calves were torn away from their mothersjust hours after birth so that their mothers' milk could be sold for human consumption. Some calves were even force-fed milk by the workers, which sometimes went into the calves' lungs, essentially drowning them. See the investigation and help these animals by pledging to go vegan. HELP COWS Act Now to Ban Horse Slaughter! It is shocking that every year more than 100,000 horses are sent from the U.S. to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. Many are trucked in extreme weather conditions and never given food or water during transport. Thankfully, there is legislation in the works to help end the slaughter of American horses for food—both here and abroad. Act now to help ban horse slaughter! SPEAK UP FOR HORSES Will It Be Dinner With Pamela Anderson, Yoga With Russell Simmons, or a Beachfront Villa Vacation? PETA's 35th anniversary online auction is coming to an end this Wednesday, and so is your chance to bid on these exciting items as well as exclusive items donated by Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, Daniel Tosh, David LaChapelle, Michael Strahan, Ozzy Osbourne, Stella McCartney, Tommy Lee, and many others! BID BY OCTOBER 21! peta2's Vegan Report Card Is Back, and Grades Are in for Campuses Nationwide Vegan food has exploded in popularity on college campuses nationwide. We assessed submissions and dining-hall menus and then graded the vegan offerings at thousands of colleges and universities across the nation so that you can see how the schools stack up. SEE THE RESULTS URGENT ACTION NEEDED Something Fishy About Florida Education Department's SeaWorld Promotions Urgent: USDA's Wildlife Services Leaves Birds to Drown Ask Pennsylvania Roadside Zoo to Retire Bears to a Reputable Sanctuary Tell Feds to Investigate the CDC's Laboratories Now THE ANIMAL LOVERS' SHOPPING LIST SeaWorld Kills Unisex T-Shirt Respect All Animals Unisex T-Shirt Humane Smart Mousetrap My Cat Is a Rescue Infant One-Piece  PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA.

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Bernie Sanders Dominates With Small Donors While the GOP Rakes in the Dark Money

Bernie Sanders Dominates With Small Donors While the GOP Rakes in the Dark Money After a surprisingly strong third quarter, Bernie Sanders has almost as much cash-on-hand as Hillary Clinton. JOSHUA HOLLAND

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Obama Just Signed a Blank Check for Endless War in Afghanistan And one congresswoman is not having it. JOHN NICHOLS

After One Good Debate, Democrats Need to Schedule a Lot More of Them Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is right: Democrats must display a “greater engagement in our democratic process at a critical time.” JOHN NICHOLS

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Among those born between roughly 1985 and 1997, 54 percent back the democratic socialist senator from Vermont. | AP Photo

Millennials warming to Sanders, cooling to Clinton

By NICK GASS

10/16/15 10:00 AM EDT

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Millennials are feeling the Bern, according to the latest results from a national NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll of Democrats out Friday.

Hillary Clinton still leads Bernie Sanders 45 percent to 31 percent, essentially unchanged from last month's survey. But among those born between roughly 1985 and 1997, 54 percent back the democratic socialist senator from Vermont. Just 26 percent supported Clinton, down from 34 percent in September and 36 percent in August.

Vice President Joe Biden went down to 10 percent from 15 percent last month, while other candidates earned 1 percent or less.

Clinton, however, commands strong leads among all other age groups, including Gen Xers and Baby Boomers.

A majority of 56 percent also said Clinton performed best during Tuesday's debate, with 33 percent responding that Sanders won the night.

Biden, who has not announced a bid, earned 10 percent in the overall vote among Democrats but just 3 percent among millennials aged 18 to 29. (Millennials born in the early 1980s are, of course, now part of the 30-to-44 age cohort.)

The poll was conducted by SurveyMonkey from Oct. 13-15, surveying 1,857 registered Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

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The Texas Attorney General’s Thorough Plans To Discriminate Against LGBT People

A frequent Fox news contributor has been arrested for "major fraud" for lying about being a CIA operative for decades. The Texas attorney general has released a thorough plan of discrimination against LGBT Americans. And while the fight for a $15 minimum wage has picked up steam, it still may not be enough: these maps show the states where $15 isn't a living wage for a single adult. This news and more, in our top stories of the day: The Texas Attorney General’s Thorough Plans To Discriminate Against LGBT People This year, Texas lawmakers considered a record number of bills targeting LGBT people for discrimination and persecution, but almost all of them failed to pass. The state’s top elected leaders haven’t given up yet, however, and recently laid out extensive plans for future anti-LGBT bills. ...(read more) 7 Amazing Moments From The Fox News ‘Terrorism Expert’ Who Was Just Arrested For Fraud Sikh Family Takes On Racist Bullying After Teen Was Beaten And Sent To The Hospital The States Where $15 Isn’t A Living Wage Thousands of workers all over the country have walked out, embarked on hunger strikes, and staged sit-ins in restaurants over the past year, all in the pursuit of a $15 minimum wage. The Fight for $15 campaign has garnered headlines and built momentum around the country for raising salaries among low-wage workers. The effort has organized workers in small towns in Arkansas and larger cities such as New York and San Francisco alike. As a result, progressive strongholds have implemented higher minimum wages. But federal minimum wage still remains at an impossibly low $7.25 per hour. ...(read more) George Bush’s EPA Chief: Clean Power Plan Is ‘Most Flexible Thing’ The Agency Has Done ThinkProgress | Center for American Progress Action Fund 1333 H ST NW | Washington, DC 20005 Contributions to Center for American Progress Action Fund are not tax deductible

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