On Wednesday, Howie Carr, a conservative talk radio host wrote an offensive column for The Boston Herald entitled "White and Wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren". Here are just a couple of the unbelievable quotes from the column: "The race card—like so many others, Barack Obama never leaves home without it. " "Maybe someday [Warren will] even smokum peace pipe with Tim Geithner. " See the article here: http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061128614 Carr's article insinuates that President Obama and Elizabeth Warren did not earn their positions at Harvard Law. Also, that it goes so far as to infer—that any person who identifies themselves as a person of color and holds a position of power, that they only did so by playing the "race card". We all know that political campaigns get ugly. We shouldn't expect the contest between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown to be an exception. But dragging out despicable stereotypes and denigrating whole groups of people goes way too far. Instead of stoking the fires of this hate-filled story, the Brown campaign needs to focus on the issues. That's why I created a petition on SignOn.org to Senator Brown, asking him to make it clear that he wont give silent approval to these kinds of attacks.

The bill would give water rights that currently fall under native control to the power industry, and leave huge portions of both Navajo and Hopi peoples without any water access. They will have no way to water livestock, meaning that this bill will be a death sentence for thousands of sheep, goats, horses, and cows. Their way of life and livelihood depends on sheep, so this bill is an act of genocide.

Through the month of November, celebrate all Native Americans. Through them the country was open. "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

It is way past time for elections to be held on Saturdays, not Tuesdays, for it allows poor voters a better opportunity to get to the polls. It is far more difficult for low-level workers to get off during the middle of the work week, and farmers and ranchers no longer need the few days it used to take to go the polls. Today, with the right wing doing all it can to disenfranchise voters with new voter ID laws, it is high time to change election day to Saturday.

TO PROTECT EVERYBODY IN CONGO

Karl Menninger said an accurate diagnosis can greatly enhance a cure. We need a cure, but few are suggesting the diagnosis. We all are greedy beyond bounds. The crime of hoarding is not a crime until you are caught. The crime of huge bonuses, unseemly pensions, fraudulent practices leading to personal ruin are rampant. A beginning would be a combination of Bill Daley and Warren Buffett's amendments---a four-year term limit for representatives,period, and then to receive social security and medicare as a benefit, no consulting or working for corporations with which you wrote legislation. The income tax code would be rewritten to reflect a concern for the human infrastructure and the communal infrastructure.

The Bill SB 2109 would require the Navajo and Hopi Tribes to relinquish future claims over water quality and loss of traditional springs, to waive their priority Water Rights to the surface waters of the Little Colorado River. In return the promise is of uncertain federal appropriations to supply minimal amounts of drinking water. It also denies the Tribes the economic market of value of their water rights, and force them to dependence on uncertain federal funding of any water projects. See attached video for more information. Please call Senators John McCain (202) 224-2235 and Jon Kyle (202) 224-4521 and Representative Ben Quale (602) 263-5300, requesting them to withdraw SB 2109.

http://instagr.am/p/KEKLbrEu7M/ How can América TeVe uphold a nondiscrimination policy when it broadcasts deeply offensive blackface that denigrates and stereotypes black people daily on shows like TN3? Help us hold Miami's television networks and their management accountable for their actions. ¿Como puede cumplir América TeVe con una política de no discriminación cuando la programación del canal contiene carinegros quienes denigran a y sostienen estereotipos de la identidad negra? Ayuden a responsibilizar a los canales de Miami que cometen estos actos ofensivos e inexcusables.

The Committee on Criminal Justice Advocacy for People with Mental Illness and CURE IL along with the undersigned individuals and organizations have joined as one voice to express our concerns regarding all forms of civil rights violations perpetrated by the staff of Cook County Jail against its inmate population. While the violation of any individual’s civil rights is unacceptable to us, we place particular emphasis on issues relating to inmates with mental illness.

Parents everywhere are suffering financially. Not every family qualifies for free lunches, yet even reduced lunches can get costly. Some parents are having to choose between paying their bills, putting gas in the car, or immediately paying off their children's student lunch accounts. Schools then suspend children with a negative balance on their lunch accounts from attending fun activities & games. In effect punishing them for their family's financial status. Congress needs to act & stop this type of discrimination now! Students should not be prevented from enjoying activities because their parents can't afford to feed them. Congress should draft legislation preventing schools from suspending children with negative lunch balances from attending fun games, rallies, etc.. End financial discrimination in schools now!

Repeal the Controlled Substances Act and legalize all drugs for mentally competent adults (21+). The Drug War has failed, 30,000 people have lost their lives in Mexico, and for what? Marijuana is not going away. It's about time we decriminalized it.

On May 8th. vote no on Amendment One. North Carolina already has a marriage law stating one man and one woman. This is a bad law that will hurt women and children. Stand up. Fight back. Don't accept trickery from politicians!