The award winning documentary Favela Rising shows the power of music as a force for social change and how one man’s vision can save a community. Rio de Janeiro is known for beaches, for Carnaval, for the giant statue of Jesus…but behind and beneath are the favelas, the shantytown slums of Rio.  The 600 favelas [...]

Email disclosures by AIG, responding to subpoenas from the House Oversight Committee, have revealed that the New York Federal Reserve requested that information about the AIG bailout be kept secret as if it were connected to national security.

John Nichols has an interesting piece over at The Nation about the fallout from last week’s Citizens United decision from the Supreme Court. It’s a pretty brutal take on the thinking that lead the AFL-CIO to file an amicus brief supporting unlimited corporate spending.

Demonstrating how the democratic process of Congress was end-run and subverted by those negotiating in backrooms with the White House to create a health care reform bill, as support for why Congress should be allowed to do its own work.

[Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger--including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.]

Part Two of the liveblog here

Part One of the liveblog here

If you think your member of Congress is someone we should help, please nominate them (your nomination will only count if you’re a resident of the district). The deadline is midnight tomorrow tonight. We’ll start the voting Wednesday, which will be open to the entire community.

Let’s help our friends. You decide who that should be.

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If Berry wants to blame anyone, he should look to his Blue Dog bretheren who have been soaking up the lobbyist cash — and delivering.

Did Obama put a gun to his head and make him take it or something?

More than 400 people have reported their calls to Democratic members of Congress since Friday, and another 30,000 have signed our petition to House progressives. We’re delivering the petition to Rep. Grijalva’s office tomorrow, so sign now if you haven’t yet.

Let’s thank Rep. Raúl Grijalva for his leadership on true health care reform – give him a call in DC at (202) 225-2435, or at his home office at (520) 622-6788. You can also drop him a line on his Facebook page.

Scott Brown won because the economy sucks and Democratic voters weren’t motivated to vote, for a variety of reasons. There is no evidence that his election indicates Americans are clamoring for the Tanman to return as Speaker of the House, any time soon.

Karen Tumulty picks up on a general awareness out in Massachusetts of Ben Nelson’s Nebraska Medicaid deal, which was used as a symbol for the tainted process of the health care reform debate. The deal now known as the “Cornhusker Kickback” may have been one of the biggest blunders in modern political history. Normally, you’d [...]