Moving Ideas Alert: October 21, 2004
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SPECIAL EVENT
How to Move the Progressive Agenda Forward with Technology
PopandPolitics.com is hosting an exciting roundtable event exploring progressive politics and technology starting at 5:30pm on Thursday, November 18, 2004 in Washington, DC at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Moving Ideas’ is a co-sponsor and will be part of the panel!
www.2004progressivetech.com
NEW FROM MOVING IDEAS
Patriot Act Threatens Civil Liberties
On the 3rd anniversary of the Patriot Act, write a letter to the editor in support of civil liberties protections.
http://action.movingideas.org/dia/organizations/movingideas/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=48
Early Childhood Development
Readings and resources relating to The American Prospect's special report on early childhood development.
http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/childdevelopment.html
Guantanamo Detainees: Human Rights are Not Negotiable
Read the transcripts from the online chat presented by Amnesty International USA and the Moving Ideas Network.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=24
FEATURED ARTICLES
Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
From: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
This report found that Hispanics are overrepresented in the U.S. criminal justice system, with Hispanic defendants imprisoned three times as often as Whites and detained before trial almost twice as often as Whites, despite being the least likely of all ethnic groups to have a criminal history.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5960
American Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy from September 11 to the Iraq War
From: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Paul T. McCartney
The author examines how the Bush administration drew upon nationalist imagery first to interpret the terrorists attacks of September 11 and then to frame the war against Iraq.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5952
Placebo Ballots: Will Fail-Safe Voting Fail?
From: DEMOS
David Cay Johnston
More than 200,000 votes cast on November 2nd could be invalidated due to improperly and illegally applied provisional balloting procedures, according to this new report.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5923
SPECIAL EVENT
How to Move the Progressive Agenda Forward with Technology
PopandPolitics.com is hosting an exciting roundtable event exploring progressive politics and technology starting at 5:30pm on Thursday, November 18, 2004 in Washington, DC at the headquarters of the AFL-CIO. Moving Ideas’ is a co-sponsor and will be part of the panel!
www.2004progressivetech.com
NEW FROM MOVING IDEAS
Patriot Act Threatens Civil Liberties
On the 3rd anniversary of the Patriot Act, write a letter to the editor in support of civil liberties protections.
http://action.movingideas.org/dia/organizations/movingideas/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=48
Early Childhood Development
Readings and resources relating to The American Prospect's special report on early childhood development.
http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/childdevelopment.html
Guantanamo Detainees: Human Rights are Not Negotiable
Read the transcripts from the online chat presented by Amnesty International USA and the Moving Ideas Network.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=24
FEATURED ARTICLES
Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
From: NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
This report found that Hispanics are overrepresented in the U.S. criminal justice system, with Hispanic defendants imprisoned three times as often as Whites and detained before trial almost twice as often as Whites, despite being the least likely of all ethnic groups to have a criminal history.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5960
American Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy from September 11 to the Iraq War
From: POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Paul T. McCartney
The author examines how the Bush administration drew upon nationalist imagery first to interpret the terrorists attacks of September 11 and then to frame the war against Iraq.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5952
Placebo Ballots: Will Fail-Safe Voting Fail?
From: DEMOS
David Cay Johnston
More than 200,000 votes cast on November 2nd could be invalidated due to improperly and illegally applied provisional balloting procedures, according to this new report.
http://www.movingideas.org/cgi-bin/rd/epn_letter.pl?id=5923
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