Activism

Issa heckled at bank hearing: 'Shame on you!'

At an unusual congressional hearing in Brooklyn on Monday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) was interrupted by protesters who claimed he had favored banks over people.

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Trayvon Martin's mother: Shooter 'responding to the color of his skin'

The mother of a black Florida teen who was gunned down by a neighborhood watch vigilante in February blames the incident on racial profiling.

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NYPD officers allegedly smash 'medic's' head into glass window during OWS protest

During a night of clashes between police and "occupy wall street" protesters marking the six-month anniversary of the occupation of New York's Zuccotti Park, citizen journalists captured an intense scuffle between police and a man who was identified as a "medic." From the video, it appears that the police smashed the man's head into a reinforced glass window.

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Maddow: Republicans don't know what's in their abortion bills

On Friday night's edition of The Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel treated viewers to some of the priceless comments that Facebook users have been posting to the timelines of Sam Brownback and other Republican governors whose state legislatures are currently attempting to enact draconian anti-abortion laws.

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Bill Maher hammers response to 'Kony 2012'

Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher laid into the "kids from white liberal homes" who have made the Kony 2012 video one of the fastest-spreading Internet phenomena to date.

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George Clooney jokes around after release from jail

Actor George Clooney was in a jovial mood when he was released from jail on Friday, poking fun at himself and those who were arrested with him for protesting outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC.

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George Clooney arrested outside Sudan embassy in D.C.

Update: According to a tweet from the EnoughProject, Clooney has since been released

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'Occupy Wall Street' protesters target Romney fundraiser

Protesters affiliated with "Occupy Wall Street" converged on the luxury hotel Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan on Wednesday, where a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was being held.

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Land owners kept in dark about fracking violations on their property

A group of Pennsylvania farmers and land owners who receive royalties from hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") natural gas wells on their property are not being informed about violations and safety issues on their land, said this report from CNN Money.

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Pat Robertson: Marijuana 'absolutely' should be legalized

Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson says he has become a "hero of the hippie culture" by calling for marijuana to be legalized.

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Blogger demonstrates serious flaw in TSA body scanners

A blogger on Tuesday published a video showing how he had snuck a small metal case through the Transportation and Security Administration's (TSA) "billion dollar fleet" of so-called nude body scanners.

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Palin: Criticizing Rush over his Fluke comments is 'the definition of hypocrisy'

Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) got caught by CNN's "caucus cam" in Wasilla -- and the whole CNN team to the opportunity to quiz her about the the GOP primary, her potential candidacy and, of course, her opinion on the Sandra Fluke affair. Unsurprisingly, Palin used the opportunity to call the liberal media hypocrites. "I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, force to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his first amendment rights," she said, "and never is the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, the defenseless."

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