Activist and student Lorella Praeli on the DREAM Act: a path to citizenship for undocumented students that is currently in the Senate. UPDATE: This will come to a vote in the Senate on Saturday, December 18.

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More info about CT Students for a Dream.

More about the DREAM Act.

Read an article on the DREAM Act in Connecticut.

There’s been a flutter of media-related discussions about the Wikileaks saga in the past week.  Ultimately, the fate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may rest in the determination of whether his site constitutes “journalism.”  But what’s not being discussed as much is that Wikileaks has been modeling its habits off of tried and true methods used for decades by the more traditional media outlets.  For instance, one of the myths is that WL is indiscriminately “dumping” documents onto the web with no regard for consequence, doing such things as including names of civilians, or deceased, or other information that could result in direct harm to someone.   On the contrary, WL has followed the lead of most major media in redacting such information.  In fact, there are reports that WL has even contacted the US government to help determine what information should be redacted.   Check out this week’s Counterspin for an interview with Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com.  (Greenwald interview begins at around the 10 minute mark of the show).

Greenwald also tracks some of the major inaccuracies in the press about WikiLeaks, noting the similarities between it and the lead-up to the Iraq war.  Check it out here.

More myths about the WL situation can be found online here, OpEdNews.com.

We speak with Lief Ellis, Bill Solomon and Matt Sargent, members of Studio for Electronic Music, Inc. about their upcoming concert of percussion and electronics.

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The fight continues for Spectrum employees…. Come out and support your fellow workers! When we stand together, everyone wins! (except the bosses…but hey, scrooge them!)

Tipped off by A Few Queers on the Prowl on this one.

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Connecticut Valley Atheists, and the national Atheist organization American Atheists, of which Connecticut Valley Atheists is an affiliate, said they will jointly sponsor a protest of the practice of opening Hartford City Council meetings with a prayer.

During the meeting of Monday December 13, members of the groups will remain seated and silent when the room is requested to stand for prayer. Read the full story at A Few Queers on the Prowl.

We speak with Jerimarie Liesegang about Transgender Day of Remembrance, organizing in the transgender community, and “It Gets Better.”  Click here from the CT Transadvocacy Coalition.

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