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One Size Does Not Fit All: Fighting the Common Core Curriculum
Corporate interests are pushing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in an attempt to privatize public elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States and impose a one-size-fits-all curriculum on …
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Jeju Island: A Pivot on the Peace Island
Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim to build …
Living Thought, Living Freedom Through Three Portraits of Philosophy Born of Struggle
Lewis Gordon's closing keynote address at the 2013 Philosophy Born of Struggle Society meeting at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Reflections on Vietnam and Other Moments of Campus Activism: An Interview With Radical Professor Bertram Strieb
Bertram Strieb, LaSalle University professor emeritus in the Department of Geology, Physics and Environmental Science, reflects on antiwar activism in Philadelphia during the Vietnam War.
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Making an Impact: Are You an Activist?
Who are the “real” activists? How do they make a difference?
Groups Warn TAFTA Threatens Important Safeguards
A wide range of consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations held a press event outside the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement negotiating summit.
Lyme Victims from Around US to Gather at IDSA Headquarters and Demand Changes to Guidelines for Lyme
Lyme disease victims from around the US will unite at the Infectious Diseases Society of America headquarters for the 2014 Mayday Project protest.
Peru’s Conga Mine Conflict: Cajamarca Won’t Capitulate
The fight over the Conga mining project is one of Peru's largest current social conflicts.
The Forgotten Mothers
The majority of women in prison are domestic violence survivors. Most women in prison are also mothers.
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Cecily McMillan: The Latest Butterfly on the Wheel
Power will not hesitate to use your identity against you if it can. The police violence to which Cecily McMillan was subjected was explicitly gendered, and in this she …