One Year, Six Months, Three Weeks Later, Manning Gets His Day In Court

Alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning finally has a court date, Dec. 16, after 18 months in prison, largely under harsh conditions . Supporters plan a rally.

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"The University Needs Me"

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi won't resign despite her grotesque failure of leadership because, "I really feel confident the university needs me." Wow: ego, much? This is so not over. Katehi apology and rally drawing 15,000 here , here.

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On Smashing Laptops, Trashing Books, and (Badly) Losing the Moral Battle

Here's how the OWS laptops confiscated from Zuccotti looked when found at N.Y.C.'s Sanitation Dept. And the People's Library, re-constituted after the eviction, has again been destroyed by police. Bloomberg should be booked too. Then again: Here, at UC Davis, and elsewhere, spin crumbles in the righteous face of omnipresent cameras.

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