Revolution #279, September 2, 2012


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Criminalization

Correctional Population in the United States, 2010, by the U.S. Department of Justice

The Caging of America, by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, January 30, 2012

When will the U.S. stop mass incarceration?, by Lisa Bloom, CNN, July 3, 2012

Stop-and-Frisk Campaign: About the Issue, by the New York Civil Liberties Union

Killings By Police Underreported, Orlando Sentinel, May 24, 2004

Killings by local police jump sharply, Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2012

Chicago Police Shooting Spree? Halfway Through 2011, 43 Shot, 16 Dead. Alternet, August 2, 2011

Immigrants

Lost in Detention: As Obama Admin Deports Record 400,000, Film Explores What Immigrants Face Behind Bars, Democracy Now!, October 20, 2011

President Obama: Deporter-in-Chief, Forbes Magazine, July 30, 2012

Immigration Ruling Clears The Way For Rollout Of Secure Communities Across Alabama, HC Today, August 21, 2012

Border deaths database, Arizona Daily Star,

War

The Year of the Drone, by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, Foreign Policy, April 26, 2010

July 2012 update – US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, August 1, 2012

Sanctions endanger Iranian patients with intractable diseases, August 12, 2012

Killing Iran’s Children: Are the Sanctions “Worth It?” By Dave Lindorff, August 14, 2012

Iraqi Deaths From Violence, 2003-2011, by Iraq Body Count, January 2, 2012

U.S. ‘significant’ in Iraq despite troop exit: Dempsey, The News of Pakistan, August 23, 2012

Some Troops to Stay in Iraq as Trainers, Top Officer Says, New York Times, November 15, 2011

Barack Obama pledges to 'finish the job' in Afghanistan, BBC News, May 2, 2012

U.S. Expands Its Drone War Into Somalia, New York Times, July 1, 2011

Lessons of Iraq Help U.S. Fight a Drug War in Honduras, New York Times, May 5, 2012

NicaNet, May 28, 2012

Fundamental Rights

With Reservations, Obama Signs Act to Allow Detention of Citizens, ABC News, December 31, 2011

Obama argues his assassination program is a “state secret,” Salon, September 25, 2011

Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will, New York Times, May 29, 2012

Obama Upholds Detainee Policy in Afghanistan, New York Times, February 21, 2009

Obama and habeas corpus, then and now, Salon.com, April 11, 2009

NSA Domestic Spying Continues Under Obama, Government Accountability Project, April 25, 2012

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say), Wired Magazine, March 15, 2012

Abortion

Obama’s Notre Dame Commencement: Common Ground on Abortion—Or Appeasement of Foes? Religion Dispatches Magazine, May 28, 2009

Abortion restrictions gain steam in the states, USA Today, April 26, 2012

Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives, Texas Monthly, August 2012

One Year Later – Cuts to Women’s Health Have Hurt More Than Just Planned Parenthood, Texas Observer, August 15, 2012

Yet Another Curb on Abortion, New York Times, March 12, 2012

Access to Abortion, the National Abortion Federation

Plan to Widen Availability of Morning-After Pill Is Rejected, New York Times, December 7, 2011

Unemployment and Evictions

The Steep Decline in Teen Summer Employment in the U.S., 2000-2010 and the Summer 2011 Teen Job Market Disaster: Another Bummer Summer, By Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston MA.

How The Income Gap Plays Out For Rich And Poor, National Public Radio, July 26, 2011

Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women: $100, Single Hispanic Women: $120, Single White Women: $41,000, Democracy Now!, March 12, 2010

Record 2.9 Million U.S. Properties Receive Foreclosure Filings in 2010 Despite 30-Month Low in December, RealtyTrac, January 12, 2011

The last tower: the decline and fall of public housing, Harper’s Magazine, May 2012

Environment

Environment360- "Forum: Assessing Obama's Record on the Environment"

"This is the Imperialist System, This is What They Want You to Vote For" Revolution #273, June 22, 2012

"Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time,” NY Times March 31, 2010

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math"-by Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone, July 19, 2012

Sierra Club Press Release March 22, 2011, "Groups Decry Salazar's Dirty Energy Giveaway"

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