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The Grass Roots Battle to End the Drone War
Long time peace activist Kathy Kelly is co-coordinator of the Chicago-based Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Kelly just returned from her twelfth trip to Afghanistan, and is now trekking 195 …
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A Concise Answer to Ido Aharoni’s Query “Why Boycott Israel?”
Ido Aharoni, Israel's Consul General for New York, and also “the founding head of Israel's brand-management team and the originator of the Brand Israel movement” recently wrote an op-ed …
Eavesdropping On the Planet
The above is the title of an essay that I wrote in 2000 that appeared as a chapter in my book Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only …
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Howl Now: The Beaten Masses & Mass Disaster
The costs of education and student loan debt are used as weapons to enforce a neo-feudal caste system that sentences us to a lifetime of wage slavery. With the …
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When Activist Burnout Meets Anxiety and Depression
As a committed feminist and social justice activist, I am constantly in touch, in communication, online, on alert, engaged. There is rarely a moment where I am away from …
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Facebook, Hate & Trayvon Martin
Week one of the trial of George Zimmerman was a trying and often painful week to watch. From the visible pain of Sabrina & Tracy, Trayvon's parents, to watching …
The Voting Rights Act: On Not Sleep-Walking through History
For me, and most of us, last week was a dizzying one. It found the Supreme Court of the United States doing away with the Defense of Marriage Act, …
Man Facing 13 Years For Drawing Anti-Bank Message In CHALK!
More on Bank of America trying to lock up Jeff Olsen - More on Supreme Court's rejection of the Voting Rights Act - Music by George Martinez and the …
Portland’s Austerity Resistance Movement Sparks Changes to City Budget
Austerity measures in Portland threaten to tear apart the support structure for long time citizens.
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Limits to Growth – of What?
James K. Boyce discusses the tension over growth and income declaring that we need to