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><channel><title>SpeakEasy</title> <atom:link href="http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:16:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6</generator> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>VIDEO: Lobbyist Poses as Mechanic in Anti-Union Super Bowl Ad</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/video-lobbyist-poses-as-mechanic-in-anti-union-super-bowl-ad/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/video-lobbyist-poses-as-mechanic-in-anti-union-super-bowl-ad/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robert Greenwald</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brave New Foundation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[center for union facts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rick berman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Greenwald]]></category> <category><![CDATA[super bowl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <category><![CDATA[workers]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26581</guid> <description><![CDATA[America just got rickrolled.
There we were last week, innocently partaking in the annual testosterone-fest that is the Super Bowl, when we were treated to an ad featuring a group of supposed auto mechanics lamenting that they never voted for the union they’re in. But look closely. One of these “mechanics” is sporting a gold watch, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/video-lobbyist-poses-as-mechanic-in-anti-union-super-bowl-ad/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CLOSE READING: The Saudis, A Twitter Investment, And The End Of Arab Spring?</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/close-reading-the-saudis-a-twitter-investment-and-the-end-of-arab-spring/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/close-reading-the-saudis-a-twitter-investment-and-the-end-of-arab-spring/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Media and Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rights and liberties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[foreign investment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[investment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[saudi arabia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[saudi royal family]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social justice protests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26576</guid> <description><![CDATA[By Russ Baker on Feb 2, 2012 (WhoWhatWhy.com)Is Twitter (a) a leading vehicle for freedom movements, or (b) primed to control and shut down open discourse throughout the world?
This question emerged recently when we learned that the global messaging service was planning to abide by the rules of each country in terms of content it carries. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/10/close-reading-the-saudis-a-twitter-investment-and-the-end-of-arab-spring/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books, As Arizona Pushes Bill for Guns and Bibles in Classrooms</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/tucson-teacher-calls-for-return-of-banished-books-as-arizona-pushes-bill-for-guns-and-bibles-in-classrooms/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/tucson-teacher-calls-for-return-of-banished-books-as-arizona-pushes-bill-for-guns-and-bibles-in-classrooms/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:10:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>jeffbiggers</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26574</guid> <description><![CDATA[While the Arizona state legislature moves along two bills that will legally place guns and Bibles into public school classrooms, one Mexican American Studies teacher approached Tucson Unified School District administrators today with a simple request on the eve of the state&#8217;s centennial celebrations: Release the locked up Mexican American Studies textbooks, so Tucson children [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/tucson-teacher-calls-for-return-of-banished-books-as-arizona-pushes-bill-for-guns-and-bibles-in-classrooms/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Fear of Banking Hex-Prayer</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/fear-of-banking-hex-prayer/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/fear-of-banking-hex-prayer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:29:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Reverend Billy Talen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category><guid
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We believe that bank lobbies need to be violated quickly.  By &#34;bank lobby&#34; we mean the entry-spaces, the quiet, clean theaters that radiate outward from the bank&#8217;s power, with the secret vaults and super computers at the center.  These fore-rooms secure the control of consumers, reducing our ability to influence the institutions, which are killing [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/fear-of-banking-hex-prayer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The White House&#8217;s Dangerous Dance With the Birth Control Mandate</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/the-white-houses-dangerous-dance-with-the-birth-control-mandate/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/the-white-houses-dangerous-dance-with-the-birth-control-mandate/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:22:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>RH Reality Check</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Justice and Gender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rights and liberties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[belief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[affordable care act]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Birth Control Mandate 2012]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contraceptive Mandate 2012]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26567</guid> <description><![CDATA[Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
This week, on MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe, Obama campaign senior advisor David Axelrod signaled that the White House, having  finally decided to include coverage of birth control as part [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/09/the-white-houses-dangerous-dance-with-the-birth-control-mandate/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Falling Between the Cracks: Why Abortion Funds Exist and How You Can Help Them Help Women</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/08/falling-between-the-cracks-why-abortion-funds-exist-and-how-you-can-help-them-help-women/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/08/falling-between-the-cracks-why-abortion-funds-exist-and-how-you-can-help-them-help-women/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>RH Reality Check</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Justice and Gender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rights and liberties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wealth disparity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[National Network of Abortion Funds]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Abortion Access Fund]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NNAF]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NYAAF]]></category><guid
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Written by Eesha Pandit and Steph Herold for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
Melissa is 26 years old. She has a husband serving in the U.S. military overseas and a young daughter with numerous special health care needs. When [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/08/falling-between-the-cracks-why-abortion-funds-exist-and-how-you-can-help-them-help-women/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What the Koch brothers say online but won&#8217;t say under oath</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/what-the-koch-brothers-say-online-but-wont-say-under-oath/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/what-the-koch-brothers-say-online-but-wont-say-under-oath/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:16:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Robert Greenwald</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brave New Foundation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[charles koch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Koch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Henry Waxman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Keystone XL Pipeline]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Koch Brothers Exposed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[koch industries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Greenwald]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26553</guid> <description><![CDATA[Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it? The Koch brothers have refused to answer questions about how they stand to profit from the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile long boondoggle that would cut through six states and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/what-the-koch-brothers-say-online-but-wont-say-under-oath/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/the-mammogram-diversion-is-komen-laying-the-groundwork-to-reject-planned-parenthood-proposals/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/the-mammogram-diversion-is-komen-laying-the-groundwork-to-reject-planned-parenthood-proposals/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>RH Reality Check</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Justice and Gender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rights and liberties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wealth disparity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Komen vs. Planned Parenthood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mammograms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[primary care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen Foundation]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26550</guid> <description><![CDATA[Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
Is the Susan G. Komen Foundation using a &#8220;mammogram diversion&#8221; as a precursor to denying Planned Parenthood state affiliates access to future grants for breast cancer education and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/the-mammogram-diversion-is-komen-laying-the-groundwork-to-reject-planned-parenthood-proposals/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>America’s Failed Mole-by-Mole Trade Policy</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/america%e2%80%99s-failed-mole-by-mole-trade-policy/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/america%e2%80%99s-failed-mole-by-mole-trade-policy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Leo Gerard</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26547</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last week several groups, including the United Steelworkers, petitioned the federal government to whack the latest trade mole – illegally traded auto parts from China.
With President Obama announcing creation of a new trade enforcement unit in his State of the Union Address, the feds probably will investigate. But even if they whack down the auto [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/07/america%e2%80%99s-failed-mole-by-mole-trade-policy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mammograms, Contraception, and Abortion are Always Political, Even Religious. We Ignore This At Our Peril</title><link>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/06/mammograms-contraception-and-abortion-are-always-political-even-religious-we-ignore-this-at-our-peril/</link> <comments>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/06/mammograms-contraception-and-abortion-are-always-political-even-religious-we-ignore-this-at-our-peril/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:37:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>RH Reality Check</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reproductive Justice and Gender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[belief]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abortion. Komen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Calvinist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Protestanism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religion]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/?p=26545</guid> <description><![CDATA[Written by TrustingWomen for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post.
&#8220;Keep politics out of women’s health.&#8221;
In the extraordinary amount of activity surrounding the Komen’s foundation decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood for mammograms, you have probably heard something along the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/02/06/mammograms-contraception-and-abortion-are-always-political-even-religious-we-ignore-this-at-our-peril/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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