Archive for June, 2009

In late 2007, James Boyce, founder of Common Sense NMS, also launched NewsLadder, a progressive aggregator series of websites. One of the top NewsLadders is the HealthCare NewsLadder which was developed with The Media Consortium. Every week, there is a great post detailing the top coverage on this critical issue. Here is today’s.

Paul LeGendre, Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program for Human Rights First, posted a blog regarding the hate crimes bill.  Read it here.

Iranian protests have received a large number of hits on social networks, largely thanks to Twitter. Read the article from New York Times here.

Zack Carter, of TMC, wrote on President Obama’s financial regulatory overhaul and reviewed some of the abuses from the subprime establishment.  Read the entry here.

HRF praised the Bermudan government, who accepted the four former detainees from Guantanamo.  Read the release here.

Friend and client, Russell Simmons, shared his excitement over Tila Tequila writing against animal abuse in the same week that Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy declared themselves fur-free.  Read the article at the Huffington Post

Tad Stahnke, Human Rights First Director of Policy and Programs, responded to the shooting in DC.  Read the press release here.

After being detained unjustly for 17 months, Miguel Gonzalez Huepa is free from prison and declared innocent.  Read about it at Human Rights First.

Russell Simmons reflected on the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday.  Read it at the Huffington Post.

Nezua, a TMC MediaWire Blogger, addressed the lack of equality toward different classes, especially immigrants.  Read the blog entry here.