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Abortion Rights Are At a Crossroads: This is NOT a Time to Lay Low – It is Time for Massive Uncompromising Struggle!
Across the country, people are waking up to the state of emergency facing the right to abortion. As legislators in Texas pass legislation that will close down 37 of …
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On the Zimmerman Verdict: Sympathy for the Devil
Since the acquittal of George Zimmerman Saturday for the death of Trayvon Martin, there have been thousands of tweets, dozens of blogs. Some are relieved by the verdict; others …
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Peaceful Revolution? Gandhi’s Four Paths to Get There
The Indian leader saw nonviolence as an active and powerful thingu2014not just the absence of war.
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Liberty is Hunted Around the Globe
Despite the outpouring of support from the American people, Edward Snowden continues to be hunted down by the Obama Administration as a traitor.
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Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assembly
The legal system has been grotesquely deformed in most cities to, in essence, shut public space to protesters.
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Prisons, State Budgets and the New National Freedom Agenda
As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.
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Act Before the Bail-In: Now Is the Moment to Seize Public Banking
Despite the fact that the citizens have the power, we still give our money to banks that gamble with our future.
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Zimmerman Verdict: The Slave Patrol Is Alive and Well in Florida
Slave Patrols were a regular feature of the South, from its first settlement by slave-owning Europeans until the decades after Reconstruction.
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Trayvon Martin: A Jewish Response
Rabbi Michael Lerner discusses the Trayvon Martin, the George Zimmerman trial and the concept of the
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Denied the Right to Be Young
In the case of George Zimmerman it was Trayvon Martin who was actually on trail; and he never stood a chance.