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Coming to Grips With Feminicide
Violence against women who defend human rights is growing at an alarming rate.
On Iran IAEA Reporting Complaints, New York Times Public Editor Rules for the Plaintiffs
Responding to complaints over a New York Times report that purported to cite "a recent assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's nuclear program has a military …
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Letter to New York State Senator Thomas Libous
Dear Senator Libous: I am writing today, and sending a copy of this letter to both the Albany and Binghamton offices, because I have called and left messages …
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Letter to Friends and Neighbors
“With hydrofracking, a well can produce over a million gallons of wastewater that is often laced with highly corrosive salts, carcinogens like benzene, and radioactive elements like radium, all …
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“Sister Citizen”: Black Women in a Crooked Room
(Image: Yale University Press) Zora Neale Hurston writes Janie Mae Crawford as an irrepressibly independent woman. Janie leaves the economic security of her emotionally deadening first marriage …
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Why America Needs Clean Needles
A few years ago, Roseanne Scotti traveled from New Jersey to New York City to buy clean needles. At a busy pharmacy in Manhattan, Scotti told a pharmacist that …
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Guantanamo Has Got to Go: Protesting Ten Years of Indefinite Detention
(Photo: Mark Engler) “Prisoners of Guantanamo turn right,” yelled the marshal. “Prisoners forward!” In response to the call, several hundred people dressed in orange jumpsuits …
Bill Moyers: On Democracy
Moyers: On Democracy Congress Takes a Step or Two Forward, Two Steps BackMonday 26 March 2012by: Michael Winship, Moyers & Co. | Op-Ed
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Obama, Sarkozy and Taxing Wall Street
French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a joint news conference with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, March 30, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett / The New …
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Is This Land Made for You and Me – or for the Super-Rich?
Bill Moyers is returning to public television this month with “Moyers & Company.” (Photo: Chad Batka / The New York Times) On Democracy: Is This Land Made …