Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

Earlier this year, as winter was turning to Spring and Mitt Romney was still engaged in the Republican Primary contests, President Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg that he would consider invading Iran if alternative policies failed.  Thanks in part to the media’s enthusiasm for it, for a brief time it almost appeared that an invasion was [...]

The Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy’s mission to fight inequality through citizen action depends on America’s democracy.  American citizens still get to choose most of their leaders and lawmakers.  This fact endows citizens with great influence, and in ACED’s opinion significant responsibilities, as well. Democracy means government by the people.  Thus, it also means [...]

There has been very little press coverage of the killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. by White Plains, New York police officers last year compared to Trayvon Martin.  If you did a search right now of the New York Times website for articles over the last year that mention “Kenneth Chamberlain,” you would get only three [...]

“According to the cybernetician the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment or sheer ignorance of circumstances,” (emphasis added).  Stafford Beer. Yesterday I [...]