From Detroit’s WDIV: DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Thursday afternoon that the city would open its doors for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Local 4 reported. Kilpatrick said he has been working with Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other White House officials to find local […]
Getting Into the Roberts Hearing
Here’s how to get into the Roberts hearing: PUBLIC PASS Guidelines for the Nomination Hearing of John G. Roberts, Jr., of Maryland, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States … Due to limited space in the hearing room, admittance to the hearings is only for a limited period of […]
Wellstone Biography To Be Released in D.C.
I just heard that a new biography (published by the University of Michigan Press) of the late Senator Paul Wellstone will be released here in D.C. in September. The author is none other than his friend and now communications director for Wellstone Action Bill Lofy: You are invited to the national launch of the new […]
Operation Ceasefire
Has launched a website for the free 9/24 concert: www.opceasefire.org
Citizen Workshop in D.C. Voting Rights
Thursday, September 8th: Citizen Academy Workshop DC VOTING RIGHTS “Taxation Without Representation!â€? We all know this as one of the rallying cries for advocates of American independence from Great Britain in the eighteenth century, but what is it still doing on the license plates of DC vehicles today? Some tourists may think that as the […]
Anti-War Activists Get their Act Together
With Cyndi Sheehan getting tons of media in Crawford and ANSWER and United for Peace playing nice for their little rally in D.C. at the end of the month (complete with a free concert I’m looking forward to), it seems things are finally coming together. This Post article from today’s paper seems like a good […]
More on Roberts
The Post has this today: Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. consistently opposed legal and legislative attempts to strengthen women’s rights during his years as a legal adviser in the Reagan White House, disparaging what he called “the purported gender gap” and, at one point, questioning “whether encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to […]