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10/25: Young Professionals Reception for Judge Victor S. Lopez

October 18, 2011 by Democracy for N...

From Lopez for Court of Appeals:

Victor F. Lopez, Jacob Candelaria, Katie Richardson,
Robert Lara, elisita guadalupe pintor,
Christopher Ramirez, and Antoinette Sedillo
Invite you to a

Young Professionals Reception
with
Special Guest, Judge Victor S. Lopez,
and Democratic Candidates
Date: Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Time: 6-8 PM
Wine, Beer, and Appetizers Hosted
Click for Invitation

Location: Victor F.’s House
2108 Silver Ave SE
(two blocks South of UNM off Yale and Silver)

Come have a Spring Roll and a drink and meet new friends!  

More information on , who is running for New Mexico Court of Appeals:

California on the Edge

October 18, 2011 by Calitics

by Sara Flocks, California Labor Federation

“Proposition 13 set up an unfair and dysfunctional two- tiered system of property taxes. It choked off a source of revenue, and the lack of that revenue has brought California to the edge.” –Kevin Starr, historian and California State Librarian Emeritus

Many Californians would agree with Kevin Starr that our state is teetering on the edge of disaster. Unemployment remains the second highest in the nation, 32 percent of all mortgaged homeowners are underwater, public schools have been cut to the bone and public universities are unaffordable for the middle class.

Big business and their Republican allies have repeated the laundry list of why California’s economy is struggling so many times that it is practically written in stone—Taxes, Regulations, Public Employees. These are the unholy trinity that supposedly crashed California’s economy and threatens to smother any business growth in the future.

CMA Calls for Legal Pot

October 18, 2011 by Calitics

Doctors want focus off punishment, and into ways to properly use drug as a treatment.

by Brian Leubitz

The California Medical Association, the 30,000 strong organization of California doctors, has just issued a statement calling for the reclassification of marijuana away from its current Schedule I status.

The California Medical Association (CMA) has adopted official policy that recommends legalization and regulation of cannabis. The decision was based on a white paper concluding physicians should have access to better research, which is not possible under the current policy. The paper, available here, is a thoughtful study and response to an important issue, continuing CMA's tradition of providing guidance on public health.

CMA is the largest physician group in California and the first statewide medical association to take this official position.

"CMA may be the first organization of its kind to take this position, but we won't be the last. This was a carefully considered, deliberative decision made exclusively on medical and scientific grounds," said James T. Hay, M.D., CMA President-Elect.

Eat Student Loan Debt?

October 18, 2011 by Blue Oklahoma

Occupy OKC and the overall "occupy movement" has the attention of the local corporate power structure here judging from the sustained, mocking criticism by its public relations branch, The Oklahoman editorial page.

Last Wednesday, the newspaper's editorial page called the movement's protesters "idiots." On Monday, it referred to t-shirt slogans superficially connected to the movement as "garden-variety anarchy." At least three editorial cartoons making fun of the demonstrators have been published (at least on NewsOK.com, the newspaper's internet site) in the last week or so. Is it simple conservative media overkill or real paranoia creeping in?

On Common Ambitions, Or, Occupy Wall Street Likes Capitalism – Sort Of

October 16, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

Well I’m finally back here at work after another recent series of personal adventures; in the middle of all the fun I’ve been finding time to get down to my local “Occupy” event, and for those of you who have not been keeping up I thought we’d take a moment today to compare a bit of Fox-driven perception to the reality I’ve been seeing. What I’ve been told to expect, at least in certain quarters of the public space, are dirty filthy hippies with no jobs or ambitions hoping to destroy America while having deviant public couplings fueled by the free distribution of dangerous psychotropic drugs. Sadly, I’ve found that there’s not really much truth in that description, even as tiny bits of it do ring true; but with a manifesto in hand and a few conversations under my belt we’ll see what we can do to create a picture that will surprise a lot of the 99% who already support Occupy Wall Street, even if they don’t know it yet.

Individuals or individual states may call themselves what they please: but the world, and especially the world of enemies, is not to be held in awe by the whistling of a name.