Once again, the corporate media virtually ignored a massive protest over the weekend. On Saturday, more than 80,000 people from 32 states marched against extreme right-wing policies in North Carolina. Protestors came from all over our nation to push back against what they call the "immoral and unconstitutional policies" of Governor Pat McCrory and his Republican legislature. The "Moral March on Raleigh" grew out of the weekly "Moral Monday" protests that are now spreading to other states, and it was organized by the Historic Thousands on Jones Street group.

 

Over the past few years, Republican lawmakers in that state have enacted voter suppression laws, cut unemployment benefits, raised taxes on the poor, and refused to expand Medicaid, and people are speaking out against these extreme policies. This weekend, doctors, students, teachers, low-wage workers, voting rights advocates, and women's rights groups all marched together from Shaw University to the state capitol, carrying signs about everything from minimum wage to reproductive rights.

 

This march was a perfect snapshot of what millions of Americans are fighting in Red states, yet the so-called "mainstream media" ignored the massive protest. People all around our country are finding their voice, and standing together to fight extreme policies, but you would never know that by following the corporate news. The issues that Americans care about are being ignored, but these protests are growing, and soon even the corporate media is going to have to start paying attention.

 

-Thom

 

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Friday's Daily Stack 

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: "Commodity Futures Modernization Act", 2000.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Article: "Russia Claims U.S. Is Meddling Over Ukraine" by Andrew Higgins and Peter Baker.

Article: "The Government By the People Act" (HR 20) by Adam Lioz.

 

Article: "Shadow banks step out to fund mid-market corporate America" by Tracy Alloway and Nicole Bullock.

Article: "Huge cash pile puts recovery in hands of the few" by Anousha Sakoui.

Article: "US share and bond sales stall amid emerging markets turmoil" by Arash Massoudi and Vivianne Rodrigues.

Article: "EM haven hunt turns up few bargains" by James Kynge.

Article: "Russia: After the party" by Kathrin Hille.

Article: "Coffee jumps on hot weather worries" by Ron Derby.

Article: "The future still belongs to the emerging markets" by Gideon Rachman.

 

Article: "More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs" by Mark Peters and David Wessel.

Article: "Philippine Leader Sounds Alarm on China" by Keith Bradsher.

Article: "Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance" (Rio Treaty) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tax Favors, IBM, and the Murder of Vernon Hunter" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Idaho lawmaker still allowed to carry concealed weapon despite lying about pleading guilty to rape" by Travis Gettys.

Video: Attempted rape, lying, don't block gun permit.

Site: "KBCS".

Article: "Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Environment Consolidated Text" by Wikileaks.

Article: "Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter" by Wikileaks (Intellectual Property Rights).

Speech: "Full Transcript: Obama's 2014 State of the Union address".

Article: "Harry Reid Knows Opposing Fast Track Is Smart Policy and Smart Politics" by John Nichols.

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann - new updated version out now!

Article: "Why We Should Stop Teaching Dodge v. Ford" by Lynn A. Stout.

Article: "Henry Ford" by American Experience.

Article: "14th Amendment

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "Chinese drought, wheat and the Egyptian uprising" by Troy Sternberg.

Article: "The Arab Spring and Climate Change" edited by Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia.

Article: "Water deliveries reduced to zero as California drought deepens" by Ian James.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

 

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Luke Vargas and Baddorf, live from Kiev, Ukraine. 

Article: "In Southern Ukraine, Russian Pride Stifles Euromaidan Inroads" By Luke Vargas.

Article: "Inside the Barricades: An In-Depth Look at Ukraine's Protests" by Zack Baddorf.

Article: "Kansas moves to Stop Broadband Internet to residents" by tmservo433.

Article: "Seattle Hosts Progressive Media Gathering - Is Radio Dead?" by Mark Taylor-Canfield.

Site: Progressive Radio Northwest.

Site: Project Censored.

Article: "Australian journalist Peter Greste among Al Jazeera reporters detained by Egyptian police" by ABC/AFP.

Article: "3 deaths and a missing reporter - all with ties to finance and Wall Street investigations" by Gaius Publius.

Article: "Catherine O'Leary" by Wikipedia (Great Chicago Fire of 1871).

Article: "The Gold Corner" by Charles Geisst (Jay Gould).

Article: "William M. Tweed" ("Boss" Tweed) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senate Fails to Advance Three-Month Unemployment Extension" by NBC.

Article: "Arkansas May Kick More Than 80,000 Low-Income People Off Of Their Health Insurance Plans" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "9th Amendment".

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".

Article: "Northfield Mountain " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thermal power plants use 4x more water than all US residents, solar PV doesn't need a drop" by Michael Graham Richard.

 

Article: "Study: Media Leave Viewers In The Dark About Trans-Pacific Partnership " by Craig Harrington & Brian Powell.

Article: "As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Boehner Won't Advance Immigration Reform Until Republicans Can Trust Obama" by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee.

Article: "More than 4,000 Organizations and Sites to Support "The Day We Fight Back"".

Article: "RadCast radiation readings - February 7, 2014".

Article: "West Virginia Considers Bold New Protections For Pregnant Workers" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "Did The First Person Ever Really Just Die Of Marijuana Poisoning? Here's Why That's Unlikely" by Matt Ferner.

       

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