Here in Brooklyn, we've been feeling the economic crisis at a personal level...

Between the cuts to MTA services, health care programs and public education; along with increased costs of living at every level,like a $20 increase in monthly MTA passes and a 5-8% increase in gas/electric bills, it can get tough for families on my block to make it through paycheck to paycheck.

Earlier this semester, a few guys got together to form a university recognized organization now known as the GW Veterans.  This year we have been featured in several articles, the most recent is immediately below (Veterans Day) and our previous event Ask a Veteran's Forum was featured on MTV, CNN, and the Pentagon Channel.  I share with you these articles to keep you posted on our progr

I was canvassing in Louisiana in favor of the restoration of the Gulf Coast.  While doing so, I encountered certain ordinances or other restrictive regulations that restrict access to housing in certain areas, like closed subdivisions or limit access at certain times.  I believe that having an executive government in place at the federal level that tries so hard to keep information from its citizens, allowing these type of restrictions that negatively impact canvassers's ability to disseminate information to the public is very bad.  Since it seems to be local government bodies and public officials that have either put these restrictions into place directly or else have allowed them to be adopted, we need to take a closer look to see if these actions run afoul of the First Amendment.

Part of the Military Commissions Act seems to eliminate the right of habeas corpus. “Countdown” examines in a special investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/15214437#15214437

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Faux News and the CBC may need to review the terms of their presidential debate agreements... again... take it under full consideration for many, many reasons.

The least of which, but certainly the most recent:

A Case of Mistaken Identity!

It may be stormy, but things never cool off here in DC in the summer.

Congress is in recess, but they're giving us plenty to work on.

Tuesday, Jun 13, PFAW and YP4 staff and interns attended a forum at Demos on Immigration and Voting Rights. After remarks by Demos president Miles Rapoport, panelists Ron Hayduk and Tamar Jacoby

laid out two remarkably different positions.

Say what you want about the Senate immigration bill. I was struck by the meta-level questions that immigration and non-citizen voting raise.