Category Archives: Propaganda

Fighting the gerrymander

Marc Elias, the voting rights warrior who, with his group of litigators, smack immediate lawsuits on any state screwing around with their redistricting maps, sent this item today on his weekly Democracy Docket report on our monumental voting rights battle. … Continue reading →

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Banning books? What do you think will happen?

I address the adults — by chronology, if not by any other standard — who are working their butts off to compile lists of “dangerous” books they want removed from school libraries around the country. It’s quite clear you fear … Continue reading →

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“All the other stuff.”

The state is Tennessee, the county is McMinn — the Board of Education of which just voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-Prize winning graphic novel Maus from its curriculum. Why? Before I quote from the explanatory minutes of the … Continue reading →

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