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Obama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws
A voter registration form in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on March 22, 2012. The Obama campaign has begun national outreach to train volunteers and staff about the new voter …
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No Such Thing as Too Much Truth: Saving Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Cesar Chavez. Paulo Freire. Karl Marx. Howard Zinn. Are these authors socialists and communists and, if so, does this mean that they should not be taught to American high …
CISPA Critics Warn Cybersecurity Bill Will Increase Domestic Surveillance and Violate Privacy Rights
As it heads toward a House vote, critics say the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would allow private internet companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft to hand …
Disabled People Protest to Preserve Their Benefits
Joann Cross didn't travel from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, to get arrested. In fact, she's always believed that getting arrested was the wrong way to make a …
Shedding Light on the Secret Pre-Trial of Bradley Manning
With the threat of life in prison and the ideal of government transparency looming heavily in the background, Pfc. Bradley Manning's hired defense attorney and attorneys representing WikiLeaks founder …
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Could New Argument Against SB1070 Prove Law Is Unconstitutional?
A civil rights lawyers has proposed a new framework for understanding why the Arizona immigration law SB1070 currently making its way through the Supreme Court should be unconstitutional - …
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Justices Seem Sympathetic to Central Part of Arizona Law
A demonstrator holds a religious statue outside the Supreme Court in Washington, April 25, 2012. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)Washington - Justices across the ideological spectrum …
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The Weight
(Photo: _Pek_) It is brutally hard to be a Christian in America these days. Yeah, I said it. It's true. I'm a Christian. I was born and baptized, and …
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US Sets New Sanctions Against Technology for Syria and Iran
President Barack Obama embraces Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. Obama announced Monday a plan to impose sanctions against foreign …
Non-Tribal Research Studies of American Indians Erode Tribal Sovereignty
San Francisco - For Native Americans in need of good research on their persistent health issues, the troubling case of Arizona’s tiny Havasupai Indian tribe “put genetic research on the …