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“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality
Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis have been deeply involved in the struggle to legalize same-sex marriage.
More than 100 Arrested Protesting Mass School Closings In Chicago
Teachers, workers and activists hope to pressure Chicago to abandon plans to close 61 schools.
The “Harlem Shake” and the Western Illusion of Freedom
When five teenagers in Queensland, Australia uploaded a video of themselves dancing to a short excerpt of Baauer's song “Harlem Shake” it immediately went viral, garnering some 400 million …
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Bradley Manning’s Nobel Peace Prize
Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he should receive it. No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King …
Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced in New York State Senate & Assembly Legislation Would End the Needless Suffering of Thousands of Seriously Ill New Yorkers
Today, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Diane Savino introduced a bill that would create one of the nation's most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs. If passed, …
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Newtown’s Hidden Crime-Scene Photos
As a father and grandfather, I appreciate the feelings of those Newtown, Connecticut, parents who don't want the gruesome crime-scene photos of last December's massacre released. But it is …
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Why I’m Attending the Dedication of the Bush Lie Bury
On April 25th the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and General Rehabilitation Project will be dedicated in Dallas, Texas. It takes up 23 acres at Southern Methodist …
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Step Up, FCC: Lower the Cost of Prison Phone Rates
Injustice often operates in secret ways. This has certainly been the case with predatory prison phone rates. But after nearly a decade of advocacy from public interest and civil …
“April Days” to Protest Drone Killing and Surveillance, Long Planned, Gets Boost From Opposition to Drone Use Inside the US
A nationwide, month-long campaign of counter-drone teach-ins, rallies and protest, called “April Days of Action” by its organizers, will challenge the escalated use of drones for targeted assassination by …
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DHS Emails Question Federal Law Enforcement’s Role in Violence at Occupy Wall Street and Oakland Rallies
More than a year after tens of thousands with Occupy Wall Street protested economic and social inequality and corporate influence on government, the public still does not know if …