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The Avengers’ New Vision: Peace and Justice Activists, Assemble!
It has been one of those life-affirming weeks. When something that has been a part of you for decades finally gets the attention and admiration you’ve felt it has …
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Mass Anti-Austerity Protests Sweep Through Spain
Demonstrators hold signs outside the Bankia bank center during a previous housing protest in Madrid, April 18, 2012. (Photo: Carlos Lujan / International Herald Tribune)At least 100,000 protesters angered …
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Tea Party Focus Turns to Senate and Shake-Up
The primary victory of a Tea Party-blessed candidate in Indiana illustrates how closely Republican hopes for a majority in the Senate are tied to candidates who pledge to infuse …
Why Equality Matters
The history of equality from antiquity onward reveals that the notion of equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice whether in its formal, proportional or moral sense. …
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Political Ads: America Discovers Columbus
If you live in Columbus, Ohio, my sympathy. Don’t get me wrong. Columbus is a wonderful town – the state capital, birthplace of the late great humorist James Thurber, …
What Occupiers Learned From Obama – and What He Should Learn From Them
Occupy Wall Street protesters march at Zuccotti Park on November 5, 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone) It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch at this point to say …
Forty Acres and a Rule: Draft Federal Fracking Regulations Cover Only a Sliver of Land
Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on how drilling companies would have to disclose the chemicals they use that it largely …
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More Personal Than Political, “London River” Explores Terrorism’s Aftermath
“London River,” directed by Rachid Bouchareb, starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate.In English and French with English subtitles, 90 minutes.US release December 2011. Premiered at the Berlin International Film …
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A Mother’s Day Manifesto: Promoting Personal and Communal Responsibility
Some time ago a woman invented Mother’s Day. Julia Ward Howe. She called on mothers to raise their sons well, to not be tools for war, as she …
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