by Howard Applegate
    When does a student’s right to free speech go over the line?
    Old Paiute High School Principal Janet Korsofski believes she knows. Monday she took the unusual action of expelling student Rebecca Arratola for posting a satirical science paper to her student website.
    The website, entitled “A History of the Man Project, and Why [...]

Another powerful piece by Arundhati Roy. On CommonDreams.org - Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community
On India’s Growing Violence: ‘It’s Outright War and Both Sides are Choosing Their Weapons’

You were born on the first morning after that cold winter
you were raised in a cavern in your mother’s heart
and you sucked at her breast until nothing was left over
and we buried her in a field ‘neath the withering corn
and you cried every night for forty days unforgiving
the only rain that fell in that season [...]

I woke up this morning to this from A.P. My blood is boiling. The national Democratic Party is no more than a puppet of Israel.
Dems abandon war authority provision - Yahoo! News

Celilo Stories Conference
I will be attending the Celilo Stories Conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the drowning of Celilo Falls, this next weekend (March 17 & 18), in The Dalles. The conference is free to the public, and is a great chance to hear poets, writers, historians, and native american storytellers talk about the [...]

Due to a confusing registration and voting system for outlander citizens like me, I wasn’t able to register in time for the Cherokee Nation special election today. Even if I had, it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Seventy-six percent of the tribe voted today to expel the descendants of the freedmen, the ex-slaves of wealthy Cherokee [...]