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Celebrating Mother’s Day and World Fair Trade Day on the Same Weekend
Celebrating Mother's Day and World Fair Trade Day on the same weekend has never felt better, nor been more appropriate.
A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History
As Wendy's shareholders convene their annual meeting in New York, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling on the remaining, hold-out, major fast food corporation to …
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Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies
The laws and policies that act to limit and legislate women's lives are intrusive, but they are also insulting and dangerous. They punish women and push an agenda that …
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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
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Somalia Accepts Assistance From Foreign Destabilizers
Somalia has a recent history of accepting assistance from countries that have helped create the problems Somalia must confront.
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Sexual Assaults and Nuclear Missiles: What’s the Matter With the Military?
Robert Reich: Why has it been so difficult for the military to remedy its sexual assault problem?
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Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction: Mortgages in the Era of Mass Terror
Laura Gottesdiener: Almost no one openly discusses the ongoing foreclosure crisis in terms of domestic terrorism, but that's exactly what it is.
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Socialist Discussion – Visions of a New World
The struggle for structural reforms is essential to changing the “common sense” of the US political arena. But it is not enough to wound the rabid beast; one must …
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Don’t Shoot – Organize!
There is an alternative to force, blood, and suffering. It's called democracy.
New Law Gives Parents Behind Bars in Washington State a Way to Hold Onto Their Children
On May 8, 2013, Washington State governor Jay Inslee signed SHB1284, or the Children of Incarcerated Parents bill, into law.