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"Get It Done": Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic Checks U.N. Summit

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - A number of protests are being held today at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban to protest the failure of world leaders to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts. Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Maine, addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates. Just after her speech, she led a mic check from the stage -- a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests. "It always seems impossible until it's done," Appadurai said. "So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world, governments of the developed world: Deep [emissions] cuts now. Get it done." [includes rush transcript]

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Feminist Daily News 8/19/2011: White House Fights Back on Judicial Nominations

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

feminist.org - Aug. 22 (News) - Twenty-one percent of President Obama's nominees are African Americans and nearly 50 percent are women. By contrast, only 7 percent of President George W. Bush's nominees were African American and 23 percent were women, and President Clinton's nominees were 16 percent African American and 29 percent women. President Obama has doubled the number of Asian Americans working as federal judges. Under Obama, the first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, was sworn into the Supreme Court. Moreover, four of President Obama's nominees are openly gay; neverthtless, only one has been confirmed. See Infographic: Record Judicial Diversity, Record Judicial Delays

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Facebook users jailed over 'riot that never was'

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Aug. 17 (News Report) - Two British men have been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to organize riots on Facebook, according to reports.

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