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SB 1070 author says infants can get IDs to prove they are ‘legal’
The author of a controversial anti-immigration bill in Arizona said on Tuesday that young children could simply get state-issued identification to prove they are in the U.S. legally. Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, former Arizona state Senate president Russell Pearce (R) defended the state’s SB 1070 law, which requires…
Study: Mexican immigration hits ‘net zero’
A study published this week by the Pew Hispanic Center found that over the last five years, immigration from Mexico to the United States has dropped to its lowest level in decades, hitting the key “net zero” benchmark just recently, where more Mexicans are moving out of the U.S. than…
Planned Parenthood targeted by ‘hoax visits’ designed to ‘undermine’ women’s health
Earlier today, the Planned Parenthood blog “Reproductive Health Reality Check” posted an editorial stating that the organization has been subject to several suspicious visits at clinics across the country. “In recent weeks people who oppose Planned Parenthood, and our mission to provide high-quality reproductive health care, have been conducting a…
Former BitTorrent exec. among tech experts slamming ‘civil liberties violations’ in CISPA
A former executive at BitTorrent, Inc. known for inventing a highly successful credit card fraud detection technology has joined 50 other Internet professionals, educators, engineers, policy makers and entrepreneurs in beseeching Congress to abandon a bill that would merge corporate networks with the National Security Agency (NSA). That bill, the…
Hugh Hefner: ‘Repressed conservatives’ waging ‘war against sex’
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is calling out “repressed conservatives” like Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh by name for waging a “war against sex.” In an editorial published in the May edition of Playboy magazine, Hefner charges that “a new generation of repressed conservatives are pounding on America’s bedroom…
Nevada casino workers launch hunger strike
“I’m fasting and praying to God that this company will be benevolent enough to see that the company is its workers,” cocktail waitress Dawn Vaseur said, pushing back tears. Vaseur, one of thirteen Station Casinos workers on a week-long hunger strike, is literally starving to protest the working conditions and…
Harvard economist: Legalize all drugs to fight corruption
Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron (pictured, left), a leading intellectual force in the drug policy reform movement, sees the black market for illegal drugs purely as a creation of American economic policy — and by definition, the black market corrupts. “The main reason there’s so much [illegal traffic between] Mexico into…
Drug Policy Alliance director: Legalize marijuana to protect human rights
As executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Ethan Nadelmann (pictured, left) told Raw Story recently that from his perspective, a truly global movement against the drug war has only just begun. In spite of its relative newness, he said that “dramatic” victories are already being won over policies increasingly…
Obama financier-turned pot shop owner: ‘They can’t criminalize us’
Wanda James (pictured, above), a Navy veteran, restaurant owner, longtime Democratic strategist and former member of Obama’s national finance committee, might not be the kind of person you’d expect to sell weed. Because of her background, she’s in a perfect position to champion the cause of marijuana entrepreneurship, and it’s…
Top drug reformer: ‘Obama is worse than Bush’ on marijuana policy
Rob Kampia (pictured, left), director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has been working on drug policy issues for 17 long years, and during that time he’s seen a dramatic shift toward legalization in the U.S. political climate. Unfortunately for reform advocates, he told Raw Story recently that the shift…
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