2/19/2009: Daily Digest

• Action Alert:  Amnesty International|  War on Terror:  Call Your Senators and Demand Accountability
• Action Alert: Amnesty International| Urge US Government to Stop the War Against Women in the DRC
• Pan-Africanist Scholar Ali Mazrui on the Election of Barack Obama as the First Black President in the Western World (Democracy Now!)
• Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth on Obama’s Use of State Secrets and Israel’s 22-Day Attack on Gaza (Democracy Now!)
• Penn. Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails (Democracy Now!)
• Martin Khor on the Global Economic Meltdown: “We Could Have One Billion More People in the Developing World Plunging into New Poverty Because of this Crisis” (Democracy Now!)
• Arizona Sheriff Faces Civil Rights Probe, Allegations of Undermining Law Enforcement with Controversial Focus on Immigration (Democracy Now!)
• As Obama Unveils Foreclosure Plan, Activists Place Homeless in Vacant Homes (Democracy Now!)
• RNC Protesters Tried on Terrorism Charges Despite Acknowledgment They Didn’t Commit Alleged Acts (Democracy Now!)
• Is Economic Recovery Even Possible on a Planet Headed for Environmental Collapse? (AlterNet)
• Greentips|  Your Heating Dollars—Up in Smoke (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Obama Won on a Populist Surge — So Where’s the Populist Policy? (AlterNet)

~ by peaceseeker99 on February 19, 2009.