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Violence
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William Rivers Pitt | Mother’s Day at the End of the World
"I stand with Sonja Woods, and with every mother who has felt the suffering of a child who has been shot. There are many more to come, because we …
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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 …
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Death by Paranoia
For those shocked by the massacre of young Connecticut school children in 2012, or uncountable shootings in American offices, movie theaters, streets and homes, Georgia's decision to invite more …
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Rape, Rape Culture and the Problem of Patriarchy
This year's Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April was full of the usual stories about men's violence, especially on university campuses.
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The Crime of Peaceful Protest
Chris Hedges: Being an activist in peaceful mass protest is the only real “crime” Cecily McMillan has committed.
Gender Equity for Rural Haitian Women: An Interview With Kettly Alexandre of the Peasant Movement of Papay
Haitian activist Kettly Alexandre speaks to advances made over 40 years for women's rights, equity, and an end to violence.
Jersey City Man Shot in the Face and Blinded by Police Faces 30 Years in Prison
The story of 18-year-old Kwadir Felton, shot in the face and blinded by Police Sergeant Thomas McVicar, then convicted of aggravated assault of an officer, repeats a too-familiar pattern.
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Chris Hedges | The Rhetoric of Violence
Chris Hedges: Chauvinism, violent retribution, a perverted Christianity and the celebration of a mythic Anglo-Saxon history will sever sections of the population from reality, enticing them into an American …
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Guns Make Domestic Violence Deadlier
When guns are involved in domestic violence, women die. Right wing media falsely claim the presence of guns make women safer.
Was Kansas Shooting Avoidable? White Supremacist was Ex-Informant with Criminal Past and Hateful Views
Notorious white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller has been charged with killing three people at two Jewish community sites in Kansas. Miller has openly railed against Jews and African Americans …