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Human Rights
Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2014 Year in Review
The year 2014 saw pro-democracy protests spanning 75 days from Hong Kong to the Black Lives Matter movement in the US.
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The Post-Anthropo-Scene: Reclaim the Humane, Addendum to the Manifesto for the Obvious International
The effort to reverse racism, classism, sexism, speciesism and other oppressive -isms u2013 may be accelerated by the radical re-humanization of everyone and everything.
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Immigration Enforcement: A Tool to Silence Workers?
How employers use immigration laws against workers who speak out on the job is a complex, murky world.
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This Moment Must Be About Black-Ness
If you do not walk in a Black-identified body, this is a moment to practice humility.
The United States Is Committing Brutal Acts of Torture Right Now
Torture has been an integral and systematic intelligence practice since WWII.
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Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Funding for Mental Health Treatment
The North Carolina prison system has for many years faced criticism for its track record of the mistreatment of people with mental health disorders.
Hands Off Assata: Protests Can Protect the Revolutionary Fugitive Again
The earlier protest movement for Assata Shakur points the way forward.
Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany
A human rights group in Berlin, Germany, has filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the George W. Bush administration's torture program.
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Anti-Black Racism and the Task of White Anti-Racists in This Historic Moment
Anti-racists must generate positive identities rooted in challenging, not sidestepping, structural oppression.
Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo Weren’t the First: A Short History of Brutal Cops Let Off the Hook by the US Justice System
The US has a long history of allowing police to walk free after vicious racist violence.