The following is an editorial statement by Alan Tauber, founder of Focus on the Aftermath, submitted exclusively to politicalcontext.org. Focus on the Aftermath is an organization dedicated to making sure that the victims of disaster, both natural and man-made, are not forgotten merely because a new crisis has arisen. As I ...

  Tim DeChristopher, otherwise known as “Bidder 70” and any number of other marketable terms, was recently sentenced to two years in prison and required to pay a large sum in fines as retribution for his actions at an auction for 130,000 or so acres of land in Utah slated as ...

How the National Rifle Association and the Iowa Legislature are threatening Iowa wildlife. by Walter Brasch Iowa, which gave us the carnival known as the Iowa Straw Poll and artery-clogging Deep Fried Butter, will unleash another health problem, beginning Sept. 1. The Iowa legislature last year approved a dove hunting season, the first ...

Religious freedom to the GOP translates into freedom for them to use government offices to force you to observe and practice their religion of choice, not your own. If you dare to exercise any rights other than those they say you are entitled to, you need to be silenced.

WHEN:  Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 11:00 AM WHERE:  100 Centre Street, Manhattan WHY: To “Connect The Dots” between the outcome of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case and the broader issue of violence and sexual assault New York, NY– Connect The Dots, a coalition of anti-violence advocates, activists, and individuals, is demanding that the Manhattan  ...

From August 19th to the 30th, Cindy Sheehan and three military veterans will embark on a bus (veggie oil) tour from Eugene, Oregon, to Fresno, California, and back. We’ve talked about it here, and elsewhere, and the energy brought to the table by the local communities has been astounding. Up and ...

Dismissive of the Tea Party as an artificial creation of big corporations and Fox News, the ambitiously-named America's Third Party is part of a coalition of centrists and moderate progressives that includes the National Centrist Party and the slightly more progressive Modern Whig Party (which we'll interview very soon). ATP's promises are ...

Between the scam that is the Tea Party and the scam that is the modern GOP, Walter Brasch writes, there's not a sliver of light to be found. by Walter Brasch The Tea Party, mutant spawn of the Republicans, held their spineless parents and the nation hostage during the debt ceiling crisis, ...

Cindy Sheehan writes that  taking back local control of our resources, economy, environment, food and clean-energy production, co-operatives, politics, education, etc, is the only long-term strategy we have left to us for basic survival. by Cindy Sheehan Originally posted at RevComs. I would say that I belong to the classification of “protester.” For the last ...

The Boston Tea Party was formed in 2006 by former Libertarian Party members dissatisfied with the LP's "abdication of political responsibilities." "Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party," the BTP's founders stated, one "that forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues of today". Among their objections to the mainstream ...