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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.

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