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Commemorating Victories
November 7 marked 30 years since I won my first police brutality trial in East LA. After all these years, I have come to understand the meaning of resilience. …
Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach
In “The ‘New’ Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go”, Betsy Hartmann implies that everyone working on population-environment issues is part of a misogynistic plot to bring …
Table in the Clearing
The convicts and I, a volunteer, sit in a circle in the prison. We do this every Thanksgiving. Eyes closed, we imagine sitting around a table in a clearing …
Conservative Democrat Nelson Will Vote to Let Health Bill Proceed
Washington - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three moderate Democratic senators wavering on whether to allow debate on health care legislation to proceed, said Friday that he'd …
Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
Washington - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East …
Women’s Reproductive Health Is Not a Social Issue
Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a “social issue.” Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night? …
America’s House of Lords Debates Health Care
The health care debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House and back again. Now it's back in the Senate, as the United …
New York’s Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years …
Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans
The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted …
Iraq War Veteran on a Mental-Health Mission
Chuck Luther, who served 12 years in the military, is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in the 1st Cavalry Division. The …