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Those With Mental Health Challenges Fight Rahm Emanuel’s Cutting of Their Support Network
In an excerpt from her book, ‘Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%,’ author Kari Lydersen describes how mental health advocates occupied and protested the closing …
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Trayvon Martin’s Mother Goes to Washington
Trayvon Martin's mother testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee reviewing the ‘public safety implications’ of the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law.
Mates in War Reporting Testify to Crimes Against Humanity
In an excerpt from his memoir about working with war correspondent Marie Colvin, ‘Under the Wire: Marie Colvin's Final Assignment,’ photographer Paul Conroy describes his strained relationships at home …
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Unintended Audience: Raffi Urges Protecting Kids From Facebook, Social Media
In book excerpt, the sage of children's music advises that social media are changing family life, youth peer relations and how people experience life, yet we have no clear …
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How the Occupy Movement Began: The Full Account
Author Nathan Schneider traces the origins of Occupy Wall Street and identifies many of those who were instrumental in the genesis of the movement.
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Monsanto, Rural Debt and the Suicide Epidemic in India
Belen Fernandez's Project Censored 2014 winning article exposes the myriad ways Monsanto destroys lives rather than ‘improves’ them, as it boasts.
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Mexican Communities Resist Environmentally Destructive Canadian Mining Companies
Indigenous Mexicans are being pushed out of their country by global corporate forces, says David Bacon, in
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When the Police Become a Standing Army, Liberty is Sacrificed Without Security
A shift to militaristic and arguably unconstitutional policing would have shocked the conscience of America's founders, according to Radley Balko in his book
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Shake a Stick in Post-Financial Collapse America, and One Hits Poverty
National ‘austerity’ pressure to further cut the social safety net only increases the plight of US citizens struggling to survive, as Sasha Abramsky discusses in this excerpt from his …
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Fighting Back Against Predatory Lenders Is a Struggle for Justice
In “A Dream Foreclosed,” Laura Gottesdiener looks at the decimating impact of the loss of houses, property and community caused by the foreclosure crisis.