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Category: Activism
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Kate Clinton reflects on her days in the “Gay Resistance.”
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Fred Pearce discusses why “over-consumers” do more damage than “over-breeders.”
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Philip C. Winslow examines the persistent dangers cluster munitions pose for civilians during and long after the wars in which they are used.
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Beacon Associate Publisher Tom Hallock looks at how publishers and booksellers can help raise awareness of genocide.
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A statement regarding recent cancellations of events featuring Beacon Press author Bill Ayers.
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Today’s post, a poem written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is from poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez. Sanchez, one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, is Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the author of thirteen books, including Shake Loose…
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Bill Ayers spoke for himself on the op-ed pages of the New York Times this past weekend. Kai Wright's Drifting Toward Love was selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. A profile of Wright ran his past weekend in Edge Boston. John Hanson Mitchell's The Paradise…
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David Paul, co-author (with Craig Rennebohm) of Souls in the Hands of a Tender God, looks at the transformative force of approaching the world with kindness and compassion.
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This Thanksgiving week, Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap, looks at widespread food insecurity in the U.S.
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