October 2011
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September 2011
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Organizing in Troy Davis's Name
It’s hard not to mourn, but when you’re ready to start organizing, here are four groups redoubling their efforts to abolish capital punishment in the US in Troy Davis’s name. Each organization was deeply involved in the fight to save Davis, and each group requires volunteers and financial support to survive.
Click here to find out about organizations working, now in Troy Davis’s name, to...
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August 2011
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"I'm a wuss." →
Bill McKibben writes about his brief stint in jail after being arrested outside the White House for protesting the impending Keystone XL pipeline.
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WatchFollowing the liberation of Libya from the reign of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, how does the future look for the country, and how does the fall of Qaddafi reflect on President Obama’s foreign policy in the region? Jeremy Scahill offers up his thoughts on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
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WatchDepartment of Role Models.
In Chile, the average monthly minimum wage is $385, while the average monthly college tuition costs $485. Upon graduating, Chilean students are on average saddled with $40,000 in debt.
But Chilean students are no longer willing to accept this state of affairs, and have taken over university campuses demanding accessible education for all of the country’s...
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"Girls were not allowed to converse except from 6... →
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Women isolated from secular society, scarred for life, and beaten for crossing the religious authorities. Kandahar? No, Missouri. And conservatives keep the system running.
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“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly...”
– Warren Buffett (via capitalnewyork)
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“Is America finally learning that extreme inequality isn’t just bad for...”
– Chris Hayes in the Subrprime Contagion
“The Super Committee itself is a profoundly conservative and anti-Democratic...”
– Ari Berman in The Real Problem with the Congressional Super Committee
“Running in districts that were drawn to elect Republicans, that have...”
– John Nichols
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Don't Have Sex -- You Will Get Pregnant and Die
Sexuality education in the United States has evolved to teach everything besides sex itself. Although teenagers in more progressive schools may learn how to slide a condom onto a banana, they rarely learn how to access birth control conveniently and affordably. Instead, students in both abstinence only and comprehensive programs are given projects that test and assess their knowledge of how to...
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