The NRA’s latest ad campaign is resorting to the use of blatantly sexist, and truly disturbing, videos equating women with assault rifles. As Media Matters reports, Noir — a weekly program aired by the National Rifle Association as part of its efforts to reach a younger audience — has run two segments that fetishize an […]
Award winning author and speaker Claire Conner exposes the plans of right-wing radicals to return America to 1900 in this informative clip. The daughter of the first two John Birch Society members in Chicago, Conner has a unique “insider” perspective into America’s right-wing. As noted on her website, her award winning book, Wrapped in the Flag […]
The spoken word poem “Suffragette 69” by Anna Binkovitz provides a whole new perspective on the women who fought so hard to secure women’s suffrage Binkovitz paid tribute to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Amelia Bloomer when she performed the piece at Macalester College during the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational semifinals. Rather […]
On Monday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane released a report on the Jerry Sandusky investigation compiled by former federal prosecutor Geoffrey Moulton. The report cleared Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett of intentionally delaying the investigation to protect his gubernatorial campaign while he was serving as state attorney general. However, the report found that “inexplicable delays” in […]
Minneapolis poet Thadra Sheridan gives a wonderful performance in this amazing short film from Button Poetry. Button Poetry “seek[s] to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a […]