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Police Departments Ignore Rampant Sexual Assault by Officers
No organization keeps data about the number of victims of police-perpetrated sexual violence.
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The US-Mexico Caravan for Peace Takes On the Drug War
Chris Moore-Backman examines connections between the struggle for peace in Mexico and the struggle to end the racist system of mass incarceration in the United States.
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Maternal Deaths Due to HIV a Grim Reality
From Jun. 30 to Jul. 1, 800 health experts, officials and activists will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the third Partners' Forum around the Action Plan for Women's …
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Mexico Rape Victims Face Prison Time for Self-Defense
Every year 15,000 rapes are reported in Mexico, but only 2,000 come to trial and less than 500 result in a conviction.
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Narrow Supreme Court Majority Gives Corporations Freedom of Conscience; Justice Ginsburg Objects
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court once again expanded its doctrine of corporate personhood with its ruling on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Eliminates President’s Power to Make Recess Appointments, and More
The Supreme Court virtually eliminated the President's power to make recess appointments, and more.
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US Reaction to New Immigrant Influx Could Violate International Law
Friday morning the Artesia Detention Centre in New Mexico began housing families, mostly women with children, with plans to deport them within two weeks.
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Labor in History: Mobtown and the Stirring of America’s Unions
Many historians date the first great industrial upheaval of American labor to July 16, 1877.
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Fairfield’s Public School Cafeterias GMO Free in Connecticut
Fun fact: Connecticut is the first state in the country to pass a GMO Labeling Law as of June 2013.
Supreme Court Backs Hobby Lobby – and Corporate Personhood
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government may not require certain businesses to provide their employees with health insurance that covers contraception which offends the owner's religious beliefs.