Truthout
Review
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If It Takes Blocking a Bank Door With Your Body to Keep Your Home, Would You Do It?
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener puts faces to the facts of the subprime mortgage crisis; specifically the faces of black Americans, who are bearing the brunt of the …
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Being Queer, Whether Lesbian or Transgender: a Non-Issue for God
Eleanor J. Bader reviews Rizi Xavier Timane's searing memoir, An Unspoken Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith.
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Stumbling to Tehran: A Deeply Flawed Argument for a Very Good Idea
I vividly recall the excitement those of us in Chicago's No War on Iran Coalition felt in October 2007 when Esquire published a profile - as the teaser text …
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What “Orange Is the New Black” Gets Right about the Prison System – and What It Leaves Out
“Orange is the New Black” is the latest in a long line of criminal justice-themed TV shows. But its penitentiary setting allows it to broach issues about the criminal …
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Life as a Target: A Review of Fruitvale Station and the Trayvon Martin Verdict
We bought tickets to see Fruitvale Station, a film about Oscar Grant, a young black man shot dead by an Oakland transit cop when a text beeped my cell …
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“Cracked Open” Exposes Heartbreak of Many Counting on Fertility Methods
Eleanor Bader reviews Miriam Zoll's personal account of the failed promise of in-vitro fertilization.
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50th Anniversary of “The Feminine Mystique”: Friedan’s Rediscovered Writings on Industrial Working Women
One of the most common and enduring criticisms of ‘The Feminine Mystique’ is that Friedan does not say anything about working class women or minorities.
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Life as a Target: A Review of Fruitvale Station and the Trayvon Martin Verdict
The screen goes black and in the dark I felt his life, Martin's life, Bell's life and many others draining away. Here are the men of color that we …
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Dystopian Novel, The Water Thief, Imagines the Corporate-Controlled Future of America
Nicholas Soutter's novel may take place in the future, but it's clearly a future today's society created, with corporations ruling all and citizens spied on all day, every day.
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DOJ Put DeChristopher in Federal Prison for Defying Big Energy
Directors Beth and George Gage record DeChristopher's journey from an act of civil disobedience to incarceration.