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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In my childhood, we at least acknowledged the ominous existence of nuclear weapons, no matter how weirdly. I’m thinking about...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 01:48 PM PST
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Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor as well as a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87. A spokeswoman for Brown’s family...
by Associated Press
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT
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Throughout college I’ve done many jobs: taking drive through orders, seating people at fancy restaurants, shoveling mulch and planting Bromeliads, lifeguarding, giving campus tours and helping new students pick their classes, but the most meaningful...
by Rachel Brown
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on Sun May 07, 2023 at 07:04 PM PDT
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Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 12:35 PM PDT
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Not only is Trump and other rich bastards/bitches above the law - but we aren't created equal, either! Here's another fairy tale: The USA isn't the greatest country on earth unless you equate greatness with wealth or military power. Unfortunately,...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 05:13 PM PDT
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Q: Thanks for sharing your story with our readers. To kick things off, tell us a bit about how you got started. I always wanted to be a “voice,” offering unique views, pushing for important causes and contributing to the marketplace of ideas in a...
by RoniVonHenschen
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 11:53 AM PST
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You may know of Berea College �from its 1855 founding as the first integrated, coeducational institution of higher learning in the American South.� You may know of its Appalachian focus and its “...
by wesmorgan1
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on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
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Daniel R. Smith was one of the last of this nation’s descendants of an enslaved American. Veteran and lifelong activist Smith died in hospice care in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday at the age of 90, his wife Loretta Neumann confirmed to CBS News....
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 21, 2022 at 11:26 AM PDT
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Danang 65 was a huge writer on Daily Kos for years. He was a combat vet from Vietnam and helped his brothers and sisters with Mindfulness and recently was diagnosed with a small cell cancer. (More than likely from Agent Orange). DaNang was referred to...
by Vetwife
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on Sun Aug 28, 2022 at 09:57 PM PDT
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Allow me to introduce a patriot. A Russian patriot, a citizen of the world patriot. His name is Vitaly Tsitsurov, and he lives in Smolensk, a city in Western Russia that was founded in 863AD. Vitaly has always been a quiet soft spoken man, but that...
by Tevye
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on Sat Jul 16, 2022 at 03:06 PM PDT
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Cariol Horne says she’s been harassed for over a decade after blowing the whistle on a fellow Buffalo police officer. When Daily Kos spoke with Horne, she was just getting her car out of impoundment. She says it was illegally towed from in front of her...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Jun 03, 2022 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Crystal Good is an activist who tells the stories of the Black Appalachians she grew up with. In addition to her work as an author, Ted-X speaker, published poet, and member of the Affrilachian Poets group, in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Good...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Tue May 10, 2022 at 07:18 AM PDT
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Educator and activist Constanza Eliana Chinea explains that her decolonization lessons aren’t designed with white people in mind. Rather, the classes are for people of color; those who “have been colonized” and are “trying to move away from...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Apr 29, 2022 at 07:44 AM PDT
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Michael Cogbill is a Union Organizer, Gun Violence Prevention Activist and former Political Action Chair of the Pennsylvania NAACP. He is running for United States Congress in Pennsylvania’s 3rd House District, challenging one of at least 18 incumbent...
by Michael Cogbill for Congress
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on Fri Apr 01, 2022 at 08:12 AM PDT
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CTU Fires Beloved Long Time Field Rep Kugler The Grinch stole Christmas for beloved Chicago Teachers Union Field Rep John Kugler after the CTU fired the long-time active fighter just before the holiday break. "The reason they say I was fired was filing...
by Hyde Park Johnny
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on Thu Dec 23, 2021 at 06:27 PM PST
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Cliff Olney, an activist, and former CNN reporter won a city council position to make a change. This is big pharma and corporate fraud. Activist Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 11:00 AM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0...
by Egberto Willies
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on Mon Nov 22, 2021 at 12:55 PM PST
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5 years ago today I married Puerto Rico. It was an effort to gather material aid and raise awareness about the impact of Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans across the archipelago were still in the dark. It was becoming more and more apparent that the death...
by lapoetamariposa
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Living in Portland this past year means I lived around a year of protests that were commonly declared unlawful assemblies and riots by the police. A bevy of journalists followed the action, sometimes outnumbering protesters. And more interesting, the...
by MacKenzie Stout
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on Sat Jun 26, 2021 at 06:05 PM PDT
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Joining the list of racist Confederate monuments being replaced with renowned people of color across the country, an obelisk that once stood in front of the Historic DeKalb County Courthouse in Georgia will be replaced with a monument in...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Jan 29, 2021 at 12:40 PM PST
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It was Oct. 17, 2017 when God, fate, or some other power answered my prayer in the most unexpected and unbelievable way anyone could imagine. I was desperately struggling to finish an important letter, and the more I searched for the perfect words, the...
by silentnolonger
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on Mon Dec 14, 2020 at 02:55 PM PST
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