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2009 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade

On Sunday (06-28-09) was the 36th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. The gay community gathered on a joyful march along... more

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Death Cab For Cutie Offer Free Gig

Want Death Cab For Cutie to pay at your college? Then register to vote. Death Cab For Cutie are offering a free gig to any US... more

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13 Love Stories -- Steven & Glenn

Steven & Glenn are raising three sons in Southern California. They are one of the 18,000 same-sex couples who legally married... more

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Obama names Utah Governor as Ambassador to China

2News has confirmed through multiple sources that Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. may resign and accept the position of Ambassador to... more

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I VOTED TODAY trailer

After the we blogged some episodes of the election out in Cleveland, we made a short film of it. This is the trailer for the final... more

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Judges Rule Al Franken Winner; Norm Coleman To Appeal

Three judges soundly rejected Norm Coleman's attempt to reverse Al Franken's lead in the U.S. Senate election late... more

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Beyond Party Lines.

Three candidates for California Assembly 10th District . One short video of each of us. Alyson Huber, Jack Seiglock and Janice... more

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U.S. De-Regulates Factory Farm Pollution

WASHINGTON - On the heels of a decision to allow factory farms to apply for permits to discharge waste into waterways, the Bush... more

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1 million reached by vigils for marriage equality

Light up the Night for Equality was a resounding success around the country as 1 million people were reached according to Amy... more

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Obama picks Vilsack for Ag Secretary

Former Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack, was picked as the next agricultural secretary by President-elect Obama. Progressives fearsly... more

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Bush attacked with Iraqi's shoes

Shoes are now a symbol of Iraqi freedom from US occupation following a press conference during Bush's surprise visit to Iraq... more

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Homophobic Huckabee dressed down by John Stewart

John Stewart bats 1000 as he address Mike Huckabee's blatant and misguided homophobia.

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Huge gay rights victory!

By refusing to hear a case, the US supreme court handed down a huge victory to gay and lesbian parents throughout the country. A... more

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Call in gay to work on Wednesday

The next call to action for gay equal rights is the National call "gay" into work day, this Wednesday, December 10.... more

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The religious case for gay marriage

Opponents of marriage equality often refer to Biblical scripture for their "evidence" against gay rights. However, the... more

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Caroline Kennedy to replace Clinton in Senate?

Rumors are spreading that Caroline Kennedy has her eye on Hilary Clinton's New York Senate seat. Governor Patterson will... more

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Sarah Palin tried to use Bill Ayers to scare America into thinking Barack Obama was a terrorist. Ayers was in fact part of the Weather Underground, a radical anti war group during the late 1960s. Post Election, Ayers has taken the opportunity to speak for himself, to describe the moment in history he is now notorious for, and to clear up the misinformation the Republican party so violently regurgitated.

Ayers finally speaks out about the experience of being cast in such a dramatic role during the 2008 presidential election, "I was cast in the “unrepentant terrorist” role; I felt at times like the enemy projected onto a large screen in the “Two Minutes Hate” scene from George Orwell’s “1984,” when the faithful gathered in a frenzy of fear and loathing."

"With the mainstream news media and the blogosphere caught in the pre-election excitement, I saw no viable path to a rational discussion. Rather than step clumsily into the sound-bite culture, I turned away whenever the microphones were thrust into my face. I sat it out.

Now that the election is over, I want to say as plainly as I can that the character invented to serve this drama wasn’t me, not even close. Here are the facts:

I never killed or injured anyone. I did join the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, and later resisted the draft and was arrested in nonviolent demonstrations. I became a full-time antiwar organizer for Students for a Democratic Society. In 1970, I co-founded the Weather Underground, an organization that was created after an accidental explosion that claimed the lives of three of our comrades in Greenwich Village. The Weather Underground went on to take responsibility for placing several small bombs in empty offices — the ones at the Pentagon and the United States Capitol were the most notorious — as an illegal and unpopular war consumed the nation.

The Weather Underground crossed lines of legality, of propriety and perhaps even of common sense. Our effectiveness can be — and still is being — debated. We did carry out symbolic acts of extreme vandalism directed at monuments to war and racism, and the attacks on property, never on people, were meant to respect human life and convey outrage and determination to end the Vietnam war.

Peaceful protests had failed to stop the war. So we issued a screaming response. But it was not terrorism; we were not engaged in a campaign to kill and injure people indiscriminately, spreading fear and suffering for political ends."

[continued at link] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06ayers.html?_r=1Sarah Palin tried to use Bill Ayers to scare America into thinking Barack Obama was a terrorist. Ayers was in fact part of the... more