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Personhood for Nature?
The current laws that are supposed to protect burial grounds and sacred sites in nature are woefully inadequate.
To African-American Artists of a Certain Status: Where Is Your Voice?
Now is the time for all artists, especially African American Artists of a Certain Status, to show up, stand up and speak up forcefully.
Shaheed: Children Prepare for Early Death in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
They await their turn to be the shaheed.
Trump the Arsonist: Evangelicals, Survivalists, the Alt-Right and Hurricane Donald
The apocalyptic rhetoric of Trump and his followers is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A Socialist Crashes the Presidential Debate
In this expanded debate, fictional socialist Sydney Solidarity squares off against the twin candidates of the ruling rich.
Solitary = Torture
Solitary is torture.
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I’m an Anarchist and I Vote
What does it mean for people on the left, who often don't believe in elections or the governments they empower, to engage in the electoral process on practical terms?
More Proof the Drug War Is Not Over
Ramping up criminal penalties for drug misuse will further entrench the poverty and social circumstances driving it.
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Why I Dropped Everything to Head to Standing Rock
All man-made things break, and this pipe, these wells, will break in time.
Our Giant Experiment With “Greed Is Good” Has Failed
when President Ronald Reagan and his free-market cronies came to town in the 1980s, something changed in US corporate culture.