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Category: Activism
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David L. Hudson, Jr. is a First Amendment Scholar with the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He teaches at Vanderbilt University Law School and Nashville School of Law. He is the author of Let the Students Speak!: A History of the Fight For Free Expression in American Schools. Dissenting opinions obviously don’t have the force of law…
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Life is being restored to significant portions of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, and the heroes of this effort are fiercely determined residents who have returned to their blocks and rebuilt their homes.
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On Facebook, Beacon Press is giving away 12 chapters of Playbook for Progressive, an organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century.
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Arizona has instituted a $25 fee for any adult visiting an inmate in its prison system. For cash-strapped families, this creates a barrier to maintaining vital connections with incarcerated relatives.
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Violence has displaced the Triqui people from their homes in San Juan Copala to the sidewalks outside the governor’s palace in Oaxaca and across the border in the United States.
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Fred Pearce examines the promise and challenges of “climate-smart” agriculture.
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In Reimagining Equality, Anita Hill looks at the forces behind the financial meltdown.
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Is Occupy Wall Street a prophetic? Dan McKanan talks about the tradition of American radical movements.
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On November 6, Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto was part of the Tar Sands Action protest in Washington, DC. She sat down with our blog editor to discuss the protest and its impact. Beacon Press editor Alexis Rizzuto What was the protest about? It was to tell Obama not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline…
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