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A New Generation Reclaims MLK Day
A new generation reclaims the radical legacy of MLK.
Black Haitian Lives Matter: Haiti on the Fifth Anniversary of the Earthquake
On the fifth anniversary, Jesse Hagopian describes his experience surviving Haiti's earthquake and urges solidarity between the uprising there and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Human Rights Campaign Under Fire in LGBT Community
Queer groups call foul on the largest LGBT nonprofit, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), for glorifying corporations the groups consider to be downright dirty.
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Beating Swords Into Plowshares: A Review of “Killing Is Not a Way of Life“
War is a decision that can be made unacceptable, David Swanson writes in his book.
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Nation’s Largest Mental Health Worker Strike Takes Aim at Woeful Care by Kaiser Permanente
Mental health clinicians are set to strike across California Monday citing client overloads and hardships linked to suicides at Kaiser Permanente.
An Interview With Social Movement Leader and Parliamentarian Estela Hernandez
Estela Hernandez is a leader of La Coordinadora and its affiliated nonprofit organization, the Mangrove Association.
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#BlackLivesMatter: Because to Many, They Don’t
We are having a harder time accepting the reality that these protections, these rights, these freedoms, do not exist for everyone.
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Police Violence? Body Cams Are No Solution
Body cams are an inadequate response to police violence. Real transparency and reform are required.
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Let’s Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power
“Building power together” means working together as a movement of movements to build on the progress of 2014 when people created a larger and bolder movement.
An Interview With Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
This is injustice at its most fundamental level.