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Federal Prison Sentence Begins for Anti-Drone Activist
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end US military and economic warfare, began a three-month jail sentence in federal prison for a protest against …
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Forced Disappearances Are Humanitarian Crisis in Mexico
Forced disappearance has a long history in Mexico.
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White People for Black Lives
I live in this moment as a white person who deeply believes in and who grew up in the Civil Rights Movement, when my family's lives and I were …
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Goucher College Adjuncts Expect Union Victory as Organizing Spreads in Maryland
If Goucher adjuncts win, their victory will be among several won last year by Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500, which activists say is successfully harnessing …
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State of the Union 2015: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional
The modern State of the Union address is designed to showcase the transparency of US governance, with all three branches of the American State scrunched together in the space …
Kymone Freeman: #DCFerguson, Poet, Playwright and Guerilla Artist
Papi Kymone Freeman (guerrilla artist) is one of the leaders of #DC Ferguson, an organization devoted to exposing police terror in the Washington, DC area.
Henry A. Giroux | Death-Dealing Politics in the Age of Extreme Violence
Politics must not only inform, but also energize people to take collective action.
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Fracking Boom Expands Near Chaco Canyon, Threatens Navajo Ancestral Lands and People
The oil and gas fracking industry is rapidly expanding in northwestern New Mexico.
Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High-Tech Firms Will Up-Armor the US-Mexican Border
Both Israel-Palestine and Arizona share a focus on keeping out “those deemed permanent outsiders.”
Solitary Not Yet Over at Rikers, But Advocates Keep Fighting
The Jails Action Coalition is a grassroots group that has been pushing for an end to all forms of solitary confinement.