Truthout
Human Rights
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Idle No More, The Black Experience, and Why It is that What We Say About Others Reveals So Much About Ourselves
New equality movement is challenging the flow of power when it comes to human rights.
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Is Gender Justice Getting Shafted in Immigration Reform?
Immigrant women's labor, whether it's off the books, or on payroll, is fueling the economy.
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The Stage Set for Historic Ruling as the Supreme Court Considers Same-Sex Marriage
The California case could have the most sweeping impact.
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Armed and Angry about Regulation: Women Gun Owners
Twenty-three percent of US women own firearms.
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Flotilla 3.0: Redeeming Obama’s Palestine Speech with Gaza’s Ark
While President Obama's Jerusalem speech left many things to be desired, groups like Gaza's Ark are coming out of the woodwork to lead the initiative for justice that Obama …
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Farmworkers Feed Nation, But Few Have Health Care
Around 75 percent of farmworkers hired in the United States lack health insurance, the highest proportion of any major occupational category.
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Remembering Jancita Eagle Deer
Jancita's story reminds us why the Violence Against Women Act deserves passage.
Rights Group Condemns Dismissal of Animal Rights “Terrorism” Case; Activists Will Appeal, Attorneys Say
Last night, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), without addressing the central First Amendment question in the …
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ALEC, Meat/Poultry Industries, State Bills Target Farm Animal Abuse Videos Revealing Calves Skinned Alive, Cows Suffocated
My brother just emailed me a link from Seattlepi.com that made my stomach turn. Then again, animal cruelty, like all torture, always does, but the abuses in this story …
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On Black Women Domestic Workers
My presentation last week on the great intellectual and educator Anna Julia Cooper for Women's History Month stimulated some wonderful responses. Among them was a letter from Katherine van …