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Weekly Diaspora: White House Likely to Sue Over Arizona’s Racial Profiling Law
by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Hope for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year has fallen by the wayside, but the Obama administration is rallying for one last hurrah before...
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Weekly Diaspora: Suing, Protesting, and Boycotting Arizona over SB 1070
by Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left to go, Organizers are in a race against the clock...
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Weekly Mulch: How Reid’s Energy Bill Undermines Senate Climate Efforts
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced a limited energy bill that responds to the oil spill and promotes energy efficiency. Reid’s...
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Weekly Audit: Why Are Unemployment Benefits A Major Political Fight?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Congress finally authorized an extension of unemployment benefits on Wednesday, providing a critical lifeline to families across the country and an absolutely...
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Weekly Diaspora: Modified SB 1070 Goes Into Effect; How Federal Law Paved the...
by Annie Shields, Media Consortium blogger Yesterday, 9th Circuit Judge Susan Bolton struck down many of the most controversial provisions in Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, including the section...
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Weekly Diaspora: Has Obama Failed the Immigration Reform Movement?
by Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger After signing a controversial $600 million border security bill last week, President Barack Obama is drawing fire from immigration reform advocates and...
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Weekly Audit: Will Obama Save Homeowners From Wall Street’s Latest Fraud Scheme?
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger A massive foreclosure fraud scandal is rocking the U.S. mortgage market. Wall Street banks and their lawyers are fabricating documents, forging signatures and...
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Campaign Cash: How Citizens United Will Change Elections Forever
Ed. Note: This blog is available for any organization or outlet to republish or excerpt. Please feel free to share it widely! by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Undue corporate influence over...
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Campaign Cash: Why Conservative Attack Ads Won’t Stop After Election Day
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Today is the first election in American history in which corporations have been allowed to spend their own money to buy political favors. This legalized...
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Campaign Cash: Tea Party Vows to Block Campaign Finance Reform
by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Welcome to the final edition of Campaign Cash, which tracked political spending during this year’s midterm elections. Stay tuned for more reporting on money in...
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Weekly Mulch: What’s in Your Water? Nuclear Waste, Coal Slurries and...
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger It won’t be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. “We’ve had the same amount of water on our planet since the beginning...
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Weekly Audit: Millions of Americans Could Lose Unemployment Benefits
Editor’s Note: Happy Thanksgiving from the Media Consortium! This week, we aren’t stopping The Audit, The Pulse, The Diaspora, or The Mulch, but we are taking a bit of a break. Expect shorter blog...
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Weekly Audit: Sanders Filibusters Tax Cuts, Electrifies the Left
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a self-described socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, became a folk hero to progressives when he took to the floor of...
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Weekly Audit: We Welcome Our New Plutocratic Overlords
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Meet the new global elite. They’re pretty much the same as the old global elite, only richer and more smug. Laura Flanders of GritTV interviews business...
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Weekly Pulse: New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Health advocate Eesha Pandit and blogger Sady Doyle join GRITtv host Laura Flanders for a discussion of the House GOP’s draconian abortion bill, H.R.3....
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Showdown in Madison: A Primer for the Wisconsin Protests
by Raquel Brown, Media Consortium blogger It’s been a tumultuous week in Madison, Wisconsin. Tens of thousands of state workers, teachers, and students have packed the state Capitol building to...
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Micah Sifry: WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
by admin was published on March 4th, 2011 "Wikileaks is a symptom of a much larger change, an age when information can be moved into the public arena by all kinds of people," says Micah Sifry of the...
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Weekly Pulse: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Deepens
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger A second reactor unit at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan may have ruptured, authorities announced on Wednesday. This is on top of their...
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Weekly Mulch: Obama Lacks Vision on Energy, Stomach to Defend EPA
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger President Obama made an energy speech this week that had little new to offer, while on Capitol Hill, Republicans were pushing to relieve the government of its...
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The Wavelength: The Battle Over Net Neutrality Rages On
By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Four months after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supposedly settled the issue, the battle over Net Neutrality is still raging. If anything,...
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