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Fracking the Suburbs: An Explosive Combination?
As oil and gas get harder to find, the industry is drilling in suburbia - and the neighbors aren't pleased.
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Reproductive Rights Receding More Quickly for Some Women: A Review of “Crow After Roe“
Crow After Roe: How Separate But Equal has Become the New Standard in Women's Health and How We Can Change That, by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo, details …
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Adobe’s Creative Cloud Sparks Thunderous Revolt
Adobe Systems Incorporated recently announced that it will soon exit the software business—meaning all of Adobe's current software applications will be moved completely to the cloud—potentially holding hostage the …
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Steps Obama and the public should take to close Guantanamo: A Statement of the Justice Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet
As the hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay approach their 100th day of refusing to eat this Friday, May 17, we urge President Obama to take specific steps now to …
Neglecting to Forget: Lessons from Guatemala
On Friday, May 10, 2013, José Efraín Ríos Montt became the first head of state to be tried in their own country for genocide and found guilty. It was …
Congressional Briefing Urges Obama to Use His Authority to Close Guantánamo
Today, as the majority of men detained at Guantánamo enter their fourth month on hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights participated in …
Getting Past the Icon – Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change it?
David Bacon looks back at the history of photography and activism.
Bipartisan Congressional Task Force Established to Examine Over-Criminalization in Federal Law
Today, ten House Judiciary Committee members joined together to pass a resolution to form the Over-Criminalization Task Force of 2013 to examine and make recommendations for paring down the …
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Inside the Cooper Union Occupation’s First Hours
Students at Cooper's Union, a free university in NYC, occupied the office of the president to protest the decision to charge tuition.
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A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About Afghanistan
Afghanistan's peace is China's economic life-line and America's commodity price recession.