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5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes East Coast
An earthquake sent tremors from the nation’s capital to New York City and New England Tuesday afternoon, the result of what officials said was a 5.9 magnitude earthquake based …
Violence Brings Pakistan’s Women Advocates to Aid Religious Minorities
Islamabad - In spite of real dangers for those working as advocates with Pakistan’s religious minorities, a number of people have been speaking out against religious discrimination and the …
All Man’s Land
New Dehli – Ernest Hemingway’s collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships. In a particularly poignant story, a young man convinces his partner to have an …
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Groups Worry About Environmental Footprint of America’s Cup on SF Bay
San Francisco - For a week next summer and nearly two months in 2013, the San Francisco Bay will become a natural amphitheater for the prestigious 34th America’s Cup …
What Comes Next for Wisconsin’s Fledgling Uprising
Stephanie Haw needed a good cry. On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever quieter as the election …
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Immigrant Rights Activists Are Obama’s Freedom Riders
Fifty years ago this summer, hundreds of young people organized, rode buses into the deep South and got arrested for challenging Jim Crow segregation in inter-state transit. They were …
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Big Organizing Challenge Remains After Temporary Truce at Verizon
The striking unions at Verizon made it clear from the beginning that they might return to work without a settlement if they were convinced management would get serious at …
Obama FCC Kills “Fairness Doctrine” Dead, as Requested by Congressional Republicans
In apparent response to GOP leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee who requested in June that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Julius Genachowski "strike the Fairness …
Robert Naiman Speaks With Rick Smith About The Historic Opportunity to Have Congress Cut Military Spending
Listen to Just Foreign Policy Director Robert Naiman speak with Radio Host Rick Smith about his latest articles, “Why the Jobs Argument Against Military Cuts Is Bogus,” and "A …
Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline
An estimated 2,000 people have signed up to hold sit-ins and commit other acts of civil disobedience.