![Matthew Adams](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Photo 6_0.jpg "Matt moved to Toronto from the U.S just in time for Mike Harris to take power in Ontario and has been stunned ever since. Matthew Adams is a co-founder of the Catalyst Centre (a social justice popular education worker co-op), www.catalystcentre.ca, and works with a number of organizations including the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op, the publicist for the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts in Toronto (where he is a proud member of CUPE local 1281) and rabble.ca where he is the Special Projects Coordinator. You can hear Matt rant about politics on the podcast "I read the news today (oh boy)" on the rabble podcast network and read him on the blog of the same name at rabble.ca.")
The Maine Republican party goes Tea Party, a senator calls for guilty until proven innocent, another TP group wants U.S. senators to be appointed but democracy might be breaking out in Britain, or at least a better way to vote. It is nice to see some countries working for more accountability rather than less. And as always we have "below the fold: news you might have missed:"
As environmentalists predicted weeds resistant to Roundup [7]
right wing group goes all wild west [8]
Maine GOP substitutes its platform for Tea Party platform [9] (pdf)
Senator Lieberman goes Neanderthal and pushes for guilty until proven innocent [10](pdf)
Tea Partiers steal from 8th grade classroom [11] (and here [12])
Stalin rising in the polls [13]
Our theme song "Carrot Juice Is Murder" is used by permission by the Arrogant Worms [14]
And a special thanks to our friend Oliver Altmann at http://www.sysline-media.de/starter.html)">Sysline Media for our new IRTN(ob) logo!
Links:
[1] http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/i-read-news-today-oh-boy
[2] http://rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/2705
[3] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/artist/matthew_adams_stephen_benedetti
[4] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/title/may_16_irtn
[5] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/album/irtn
[6] http://rabble.ca/audio/by/year/2010
[7] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?src=me&ref=homepage
[8] http://rabble.ca/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/right-wing_extremists_take_on_local_law_enforcemen.php?ref=fpblg
[9] http://www.mainepolitics.net/sites/default/files/Maine_GOP_platform.pdf
[10] http://lieberman.senate.gov/assets/pdf/TEA_summary.pdf
[11] http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/14/maine-classroom-gop/
[12] http://www.pressherald.com/news/call-it-class-struggle-how-politics-went-too-far_2010-05-12.html
[13] http://rabble.ca/www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,692971,00.html
[14] http://www.arrogantworms.com/
[15] http://rabble.ca/user
[16] http://rabble.ca/user/register