Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Neda Agha Soltan died Saturday in Iran. She was an Iranian student who was shot by a single bullet amid the protests following the Iranian election. Her last moments were captured on a video that has gone beyong viral to global.
Via the NY Times and The Writing Life II:
A Poem for Neda Agha Soltan (1982-2009)
Written by Mandana
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Stay, Neda—
The [...]
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Filed under: Elections, In The Blogosphere, In The News, International, Iran, Pamela Leavey, World News
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Iran is spinning out of control. The whole world is watching as Stuart noted below.
Will Bunch posted this tonight… For What It’s Worth:
Shots were fired at the protests today and at least one person is reported to be dead. President Obama spoke on the situation there tonight with an “emphasis on non-violence“:
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Hart Williams
I coined the phrase “Hate Radio.”
I know this because I searched all the search engines when I started “Stop Hate Radio” in 2001. There was a single reference in a few places: in the mid-1990s a group of minority students in Florida used the term in protesting a Florida sports radio station whose host used [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Republican legal machine has already filed protests in many states. I have one question: where is the Democratic legal team in every state? Where are the previously prepared responses that can activate within 2 hours? Anticipating the problems and challenges is the job of election observers and election attorneys.
Just like Obama had some pre-shot [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Blake Fleetwood
40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed.
As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous.
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Filed under: Blake Fleetwood, Democrats, In The News, Political News, RFK
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been working on some quotes for my business today and mulling over what is next here for The Dem Daily, with the presidential primaries out of the way. It’s been a long drawn out primary season and emotions are high given the outcome not being as desirable for some as they had hoped. We [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I got this in my inbox earlier today… I’m busy, busy… But, I think this video speaks for itself:
The Caucus has more on the protests planned for the upcoming rules committee meeting.
UPDATE: I highly recommend reading “Caucuses vs. Primaries : A Report” at TalkLeft.
UPDATE 2: Read Alegre’s post: So – Who’ll Be Next?
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Posted on September 18th, 2007 by BriVT
Alright, I’m the Online Communications Director for John Kerry, and I wanted to jump in here to let all of y’all know about what happened yesterday at the University of Florida event. JK himself wanted to stop by, but he’s stuck in Senate business all day and won’t have a chance to respond to any [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2006 by Todd Mitchell
Cross Posted From: Article of Faith:
“In an embarrassing turnabout, the Department of Justice backed away Wednesday from a denial by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales of responsibility for the treatment of a Canadian who was seized by American authorities in 2002. The man was deported to Syria, where he was imprisoned and beaten.
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