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For Human Rights Day, Melinda Chateauvert, author of “Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk,” makes the case for treating the rights of sex workers as a human rights issue.
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In the first of two posts, we examine JFK’s legacy in the struggle for civil rights, beginning with the power struggle for the integration of the Washington Redskins and ending with the 1963 March on Washington for Civil Rights and JFK’s historic meeting with the leaders of the Civil Rights movement.
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Yeb Sano, lead Filipino delegate, is on hunger strike for the duration of the UN Climate Conference. Environmental journalist Wen Stephenson explains why he and several young activists have joined in the cause.
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The immigration system in the United States hits home for Aviva Chomsky. Read her personal story about a close friend threatened with deportation.
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A new book,The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration by activist David Bacon, that brings a fresh perspective to the current immigration debate.
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Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how working Americans and unions have lost touch with each other, and what might be done to turn that around.
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Mark Winne is the author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty and Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture. From 1979 to 2003, Winne was the Executive Director of the Hartford Food System, a private non-profit agency that works on food and hunger issues…
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Three memoir passages reflect on different aspects of motherhood.
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If you take the time to watch one TED Talk this week, make it this one. Geoffrey Canada is an educational innovator, and in this video (part of which appeared on PBS) he makes a powerful argument for changing the way we think about public education. Canada knows how to help kids achieve great things:…
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The recent collapse of a building housing a sweatshop in Bangladesh highlights the human cost of cheap goods.
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