Fixing A Bad Supreme Court Decision
By Joel S. Hirschhorn, guest editorial January 27, 2010 Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that…
Stay Tuned: Ce n’est pas ma faute!
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. Photo by Luke Thomas By Hope Johnson January 26, 2010 District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is mad as hell that a city charter amendment he urged voters…
The Downside of a Constitutional Convention
By Ralph E. Stone January 26, 2010 As we all have no doubt read or heard, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission invalidated the Bipartisan Campaign…
Corporations are People Too
In all the noise over healthcare reform and the election in Massachusetts, you might not have noticed that democracy took a gut punch last Thursday, as the Supreme Court ruled…
Why Scott Brown Won in Massachusetts
Yet the talking heads on the network and cable news, and the op-ed pieces in so many papers across the country haven’t yet grasped this simple truth that the American…
Striking Images, Stories
in Public Defender’s Annual Calendar
Cover illustration of the 2010 San Francisco Public Defender’s annual calendar, available for free! From the Office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi January 21, 2010 An attorney argues…
Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts
Ignoring people needs during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration supports business, militarism, and homeland repression. He backs open-ended banker bailouts, aggressive wars, repressing dissent,…