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List of Organizations Working on Income Inequality
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Inequality-Related Organizations and Institutions We’ve spent the last few days tweeting and writing on this website to draw more people’s attention to the scourge of income inequality. There’s really no time to spare. Rectifying income inequality is the one and only solution to rescuing our failing economy, but it is also a matter of life and death.…
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Israel’s Messy Package (Part 1)
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“Creating land already occupied by Palestinians would ‘imperil not just American but all Western interests in the Middle East.’” —Dean Acheson, 1947, statesman and foreign policy expert for several presidential administrations, including as Harry Truman’s Secretary of State In the early 1900s, both sides of my Jewish family fled the Kiev countryside because of the militant…
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Arrow’s Paradox Dismembers Supreme Court Illogic
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A few years ago around July 4, we wrote about the fallacy of the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizen’s United v Federal Communications Commission case opened the door to giving personal rights to corporations by prohibiting the government from restricting political expenditures. These same fallacies underpin the recent ruling in Burwell v Hobby Lobby …
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Mass Incarceration: Follow The Money (Part 2)
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America’s unconstitutional militarization of local and state law enforcement, based on racial hatred and racial politics, and the training, munitions, and financial incentives that support it, has created a new Police State. Slavery ended, and reactionary Jim Crow laws replaced it, and now Mass Incarceration, called The New Jim Crow by scholars, is imprisoning people of color for…
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Mass Incarceration: Follow the Money (Part 1)
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Take a walk through America’s unconstitutional militarization of local and statelaw enforcement, based on racial hatred and racial politics, and the training, munitions, and financial incentives that support it. Since we finished reading legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s startling book, The New Jim Crow, we decided to speak up more on the toll and tragedy of Mass Incarceration in…
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This amazing map, developed by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Organization, portrays, as of May 2012, the status of critical LGBT protections and persecutions world wide. We hope all people interested in international issues will examine it and understand where progress is being made and where horrible persecution and enforced neglect endure.…
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(También en Español) In 1994, then Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, MD, proclaimed, “With regard to masturbation, I think that it is something that is a part of human sexuality and a part of something that should perhaps be taught.” Masturbation being taught in schools? This statement is not one of shock, confusion, and contempt (or…
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(También en Español) News of Note: New powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance ’60m times worse’ The proposals, to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech, will see a huge expansion in the amount of data communication providers are required to keep for at least a year. It will allow the police…
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News of Note: US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would…
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Human Rights Day 2011 – Part II
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December 10, Saturday, was Human Rights Day 2011, and I reported on its origns, history, and background, noted the important role Eleanor Roosevelt played in drafting The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and delved into the direct connections between human rights and sexual freedom contained in the Declaration. Last week, on December 6, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
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