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Human Rights
Civil Rights Groups Tell Governor Pence: Don’t Stifle Free Speech
A letter to Pence delivered May 15th argues that passage of SR 74 will stifle free speech by equating criticism of Israeli policies with anti-Semitism.
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US “Original Sin” and the 2016 Presidential Election
The legacy of racial inequality continues to infect US public policy.
Torture, Lies and Denial
We may not be personally responsible for what happened in the past, but we are all responsible for what happens next.
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How US Working Women Are Being Run Over
Women occupy jobs that are excluded from legal protections, making the workers very easy to exploit and underpay.
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Wisconsin’s Grocery Dictators
The last thing food stamp recipients need is rich politicians telling them what they can and can't eat.
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Endless Deferment of Meaning: The Media’s Inequitable Melee of Events and Words
Our media cannot represent the public in any just and logical way because it sustains the imbalances already in place.
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Real Talk on Abortion
Anti-choice state legislatures aren't just closing clinics to stop abortion. They're trying to silence their critics.
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“Whiteness,” Criminality and the Double Standards of Deviance/Social Control
The wholesale criminalization of Blackness is juxtaposed with the mitigation of white deviance.
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Letters to Shanesha Taylor: Mothers Stand in Solidarity
We submit these letters as mothers, advocates and organizers in solidarity with Shanesha Taylor.
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Exclusive Dispatch: Private Water Industry Says Water Bills “Have to Go Up“
Water privatization advocates are using the logic of austerity to argue for raising water utility bills.