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MoveOn to host anti-budget cut rally

Those curb-stomp-ready activists at MoveOn are staging a rally this evening to protest the Republican Party’s penchant for cutting spending on everybody but corporate America and their robber baron buddies. Dubbed “Defending the American Dream,” the rally will gather tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Teamsters Local 89 on 3813 Taylor Blvd., whereupon all manner [...]

Memorial Park to host workers’ rights rally

On Saturday (e.g., tomorrow), get your freedom-loving ass down to Memorial Park at 12 p.m. for a rally to support the rights of workers, both foreign-born and domestic — or Machete might just cut off your head. The event — to be held in conjunction with similar rallies across the nation in support of the [...]

EPA hears coal ash comments as MTR protest gets buried

Yesterday, representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency listened to 11 hours worth of testimonies delivered by concerned citizens, environmental activists and pro-coal industry-types to aid the EPA in its adoption of new regulations for the toxic byproducts generated by the burning of coal (i.e. coal ash, fly ash, slurry, et al.). That this hearing took [...]

Sen. McConnell humps Big Coal in D.C.

While you were sleeping off last night’s Aqua Buddha-inspired bong hits, your tireless Senate Minority Leader, Beaker Mitch McConnell, was attending a bullshit FACES of Coal rally this morning in Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that Kentucky was recently named the 4th worst state in the nation for coal plant-related deaths and the increased financial [...]