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Haitian Cholera Victims to UN: Practice What You Preach
Rivye Kano, Haiti - Gathered silently in the shade of a mango tree here, dozens of people patiently wait their turn to tell us about the horror that descended …
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Agreeing to Disagree on Much, Occupiers and Tea Party Stand Together Against NDAA
Well almost standing together. The Worcester Telegram and Gazette reported that Occupy Wall Streeters in Worcester, MA "mostly occupied the north end of the small Federal Plaza Park and Tea Partiers …
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Anti-Choice Komen Vice President Karen Handel Resigns, Admits Role in Planned Parenthood Decision
Today, Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s controversial Senior Vice President of Public Policy, resigned in protest of the organization’s decision to consider reinstating funding for cancer …
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Daring to Look Behind the Curtain: The Drop-Out Crisis Redux
“Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college” — does this sound familiar? Possibly at …
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Bill Meacham: Birth Control and the “Goodness” Paradigm
A current New York Times article describes controversy over birth control pills at Roman Catholic colleges.#[1] The difference between two ways of thinking about ethics, the Goodness paradigm and …
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“Best Practices” and “Exemplar Communities”: Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti
In a 2011 Forum on the Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other movements to mobilize with us on …
Bailed-Out Banks Won’t Create Jobs: What Next?
Lower Wall Street, New York City. (Photo: Barton Silverman / The New York Times) After more than four years since the start of the recession in December …
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt: Military Power vs. Protest
Egyptians immediately recognized vivid symbolism few others understood in the soccer riot that broke out recently in the coastal city of Port Said. First, the killing …
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The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose …
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Save the Babies: GOP Lawmakers Are Howling to Overturn the EPA’s Mercury Regulations
Why do the Republicans in Congress hate unborn babies? Yeah, I know they profess to love the unborn. They even consider them to be “persons” from the …