Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

Yesterday, Professor Jonathan Turley asked “Is An Appeal To Race A Celebration or An Abdication of The Civil Rights Movement?“  In Turley’s opinion,  people associating in or making appeals to “exclusionary groups… particularly in politics — undermines rather than advances the cause of men like Martin Luther King and the successes highlighted during Black History month.”  [...]

(Updated Title) Last week, the Huffington Post featured an interview with former Senator Russ Feingold to support the Obama re-election campaign.  The post, by Amanda Terkel, was titled, Russ Feingold: ‘It’s A Threat To Our Country’ To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates. During the interview, Feingold says, “To me, the gap between President [...]

(Section 2 Updated) President Obama has been a huge disappointment to many on the left.  Yet for all the talk of him facing a primary challenge, no serious candidate launched a campaign against him.  Why?  It is probably because he has always looked the favorite to win the 2012 general election.  For most party members, [...]

ACED has written before about the normalization of conservative policies by the left that has moved the political discourse and American values to the right, as well as the real consequences of that movement (such as more inequality, poverty, war, and incarceration).  It’s good to see others making that point, and a few people have [...]

“One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.”  George Orwell, Politics & the English Language Ralph Nader gave the keynote address on Monday at Americans Who Tell the Truth: Ethics, Integrity and [...]

The majority of posts on the ACED Blog discuss what citizens and/or officials should do.  That may seem strange.  In general, normative considerations are excluded from political discussions.  Eric Lewis in the NYT touched on this while writing about torture:  “When torture becomes another political choice, the debate becomes an empirical one about whether it [...]

Glenn Greenwald has thoroughly documented the media’s attempts to depict Iran as a belligerent and dangerous nation that threatens America’s and Israel’s safety despite a lack of credible evidence for those claims.  If you have read the New York Times and Washington Post in the last few days, or watched cable news, you have probably [...]

Yesterday, the National Lawyer’s Guild Chapter of the Washington College of Law presented Americans Who Tell the Truth:  Ethics, Integrity, & the Law, “a mixed symposium of artwork and activists.”  It featured a series of portraits painted by Robert Shetterly, and discussions by a few of his subjects on “how the law and lawyers can [...]

At least when it comes to taxes; environmental, financial, and consumer protection regulations; organized labor; and “national security,” to name a few key issues, Democrats have become more conservative over the last few decades.  Today, AP writer Charles Babington revealed an important, though partial, reason why. Babington wrote that the “dustup over contraception” illustrated President [...]

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 [...]