Kochs Plot to Control University Depts. | 4 Things Media Missed About Brexit | Booze-Free, Marijuana-Themed Wedding

TODAY'S TOP STORIES - June 28, 2016 Inside Charles Koch's Plot to Hijack Universities Across America and Spread His Radical 'Free-Market' Propaganda By Alex Kotch, AlterNet With his grants, Koch is installing libertarian-minded economics professors at hundreds of universities. READ MORE» 5 Priorities for the Choice Movement After the Supreme Court's Major Abortion Decision By Amanda Marcotte, Salon The end of Texas' abortion law is wonderful, but there's far more work to be done to protect reproductive rights. READ MORE» Inside a Marijuana-Themed Wedding: Family, Festivities at a Booze-Free Night Celebrating a Couple's Love By Angela Bacca, AlterNet "Ganja is a way better choice than alcohol. It brings people together, nobody fights and everyone has a good time." READ MORE» The 4 Big Takeaways of Brexit That the Media and Pundits Missed By Robert Kuttner, Huffington Post Most outlets just didn't draw the big conclusions. READ MORE» Immigration Officials Making Secret Deals With Private Prisons to Lock Up More Mothers and Children By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet New report sheds light on how local contracts are boosting private profits from family detention. READ MORE» Bernie's Next Big Task: Build a Large-Scale, National Progressive Movement By Les Leopold, AlterNet Sanders should concentrate on launching a new movement organization right now — one that would mobilize for his democratic socialist agenda READ MORE» Three Strategies to Beat the NRA By Peter Dreier, The American Prospect Gun safety advocates who until now have relied largely on traditional lobbying need to broaden their strategy to include partnerships with gun owners and civil disobedience. READ MORE» Mark Cuban Is the Latest Out-of-Touch Billionaire to Want Immigrants to Take a 'Terrorist Test' By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet The billionaire investor used to attack Trump, but suddenly his tune has changed.  READ MORE» What I Told a Committee of US Senators About the Need to End the War on Drugs By Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet I must admit that I've been waiting a long time to tell U.S. Senators exactly what I think about drug policy. READ MORE» Charter Schools Are Frequently Dogged by Corruption Scandals - Why Is It So Hard to Hold Them Accountable? By Bobbi Murray, Capital and Main The finances of charter schools receive less oversight than the average public school bake sale. READ MORE» Meet One of the Biggest Cluster Bomb Cheerleaders in the US Senate, Democrat Jack Reed By Aniqa Raihan, Medea Benjamin, AlterNet An aider and abetter of Saudi Arabia's cluster bomb wars against Yemen. READ MORE» Why People Keep Taking Deadly Selfies With Animals By John R. Platt, TakePart Experts say a desire to be close to nature overwhelms our understanding of safe behavior—leading to the death of people and wildlife. READ MORE» San Francisco Man Fights Eviction after Rent Skyrockets Overnight from $1,800 to $8,000 By Travis Gettys, Raw Story Neil Hutchinson has lived for six years at his North Beach apartment. READ MORE» This City Is Quietly Becoming America's Urban Farming Capital By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch With small community gardens and multimillion dollar indoor farms, this major U.S. city is leading the nation's urban farming renaissance. READ MORE» Adults Who Were Bullied as Children Can Suffer From Debilitating Symptoms Similar to PTSD By Ellen Walser deLara, Oxford University Press The negative symptoms of Adult Post-Bullying Syndrome can mimic those of PTSD or the effects seen from child abuse.  READ MORE» You are subscribed as: bsamad2007.adnan@blogger.com View this mailing as a webpage. SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2015 Independent Media Institutes All Rights Reserved 1881 Harmon Street, Berkeley, CA 94703