Cliff Schecter, News & Isabel Gillies, Movies & Jeff Smith D17 Trial

June 15, 2012

It’s Casual Friday and we’re back LIVE.   Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) from Libertas LLC is here as is film recommend-er extraordinaire, Isabel Gillies (@isabelgillies).  And Jeff Smith (@Jeff5mith) reports in on the D17 trial of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in December protesting landholdings of Trinity Church.  Click thru for links and updates.  Use this post as today’s thread.

Read David Dayen’s take on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  And more from Salon, Trans-Pacific Partnership: Larger than NAFTA?  Also, link to Stop TPP.

Don’t say Vagina in Michigan!

And Darcy Burner stands up for women at Netroots Nation — and the Right starts a controversy.

Past Episodes

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report. On today's program: Donald Trump has secured an illegal $1.7B slush fund from the Treasury that can be used however the president chooses and comes with ZERO oversight. At a Senate Budget Hearing for the DOJ, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ...
5/18/26 - Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland welcome Corey Haala, assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and author of "When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan" https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089176 Watch the ...
It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: During a dinner with Donald Trump in Beijing, President Xi Jinping references the “Thucydides Trap” — the idea that when a rising superpower threatens to overtake an existing global power, the resulting tension often leads to ...