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Reproductive Justice and Women’s Equality: There is Some Good News!
In spite of the continuing onslaught against reproductive justice and women's equality, legislators in 17 states introduced 64 measures to expand reproductive options during the first quarter of 2014, …
Report: The Big Money in Tax Breaks Continues
In 2013, the cost of tax breaks was equal to the entire US discretionary budget.
Wisconsin Federal Court Decision Could Mark Beginning of End for GOP Photo ID Restrictions
This week's federal court decision to strike down Wisconsin's polling place Photo ID law has national significance and does not bode well for Republicans.
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Community Electricity Lights Up Spain
Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organized citizens in fully electrified industrialized countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy, challenging …
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Mothers Behind Bars
Mother's Day needs to become a call to arms against the continued oppression and trauma of incarceration experienced by both mothers and children.
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Can Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?
In recent years, Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring have created renewed interest in such moments of unusual activity. The uprisings have spawned discussion about how activists might …
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How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just Three Easy Steps
Not everyone likes the separation between church and state, and we are seeing those people fight for the right to convert the country to a Biblical theocracy.
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Mother
Andrew Lam discusses dealing with a parent with dementia.
Taxes Are Behind Us: The Wealth Gap Isn’t
There are several factors that have played into a continuing wealth disparity. For starters, non-home wealth has played a vital role in determining affluence.
Corporate Contractors Dance For New Energy Project
Contractors, lobbyists and officials attending the Homeland Security Congress in Washington DC yesterday did a “traditional” Native American circle dance to celebrate a fictitious new US government plan, the …