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“Cesar’s Last Fast”: How Cesar Chavez Risked Death to Protect the Lives of Farmworkers He Championed; Freedom Summer: How Civil Rights Activists Braved Violence to Challenge Racism in 1964 Mississippi; Through A Lens Darkly: How African Americans Use Photography to Shape Their Cultural Representat. HeadlinesJanuary 23, 2014 Freedom Industries Discloses 2nd Chemical in West … Continued
Private Violence: Survivors & Advocates Confront Victim-Blaming & the Epidemic of Domestic Abuse; Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients With Alzheimer’s and Dementia. HeadlinesJanuary 22, 2014 Divisions over Assad’s Role Mark Opening of Syria Peace Talks Iran Criticizes U.N. for Withdrawing Invite at U.S. Behest Gruesome Images Show “Industrial” … Continued
The Internet’s Own Boy: Film on Aaron Swartz Captures Late Activist’s Struggle for Online Freedom. HeadlinesJanuary 21, 2014 Obama Preserves Bulk Collection of Metadata, Curbs Foreign Spying in Surveillance Reforms Obama Rejects Panel on National Security Letters, Software Hacking House Intel Chair: Snowden Spied for Russia; Gov’t Officials Call for Snowden’s Murder West Virginia … Continued
“We Want To Fight For This Cause”: Nuclear Refugees From Fukushima Join Anti-Nuke Protests; Mayor of Town That Hosted Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says He Was Told: “No Accident Could Ever Happen”; Protests Grow in Japan: “We Want to Bring Our Message to the World to Stop Nuclear Power Plants”; Volunteers Crowdsource Radiation Monitoring to Map … Continued
Okinawa’s Revolt: Decades of Rape, Environmental Harm by U.S. Military Spur Residents to Rise Up; Japan’s Peace Boat Journeys to Confront Buried Crimes of the Past & Build Ties for a Hopeful Future; Japan Remains Hotbed of TPP Protest as U.S. Tries to Fast-track Trade Deal, Crush Environmental Laws. HeadlinesJanuary 16, 2014 Tens of … Continued
Shock Doctrine in Japan: Shinzo Abe’s Rightward Shift to Militarism, Secrecy in Fukushima’s Wake; From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Pursues a Nuclear Future Despite a Devastating Past; For Fukushima’s Displaced, a Struggle to Recover Lives Torn Apart by Nuclear Disaster. HeadlinesJanuary 15, 2014 White House Panel Refutes NSA Claims NSA Using Radio Waves … Continued
Erin Brockovich: After Chemical Spill, West Virginians Organizing “Stronger Than I’ve Ever Seen”; West Virginia Water Crisis: Behind Chemical Spill, Gaping Holes in State and Federal Regulation; Dog Whistle Politics: How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through Policies Hurting All. HeadlinesJanuary 14, 2014 South Sudan: 200 Drown in Ferry Accident While Fleeing Egypt: … Continued
Noam Chomsky on the Legacy of Ariel Sharon: Not Speaking Ill of the Dead “Imposes a Vow of Silence; Noam Chomsky: Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms; Rashid Khalidi & Noam Chomsky: For Peace Today, US Must End Support for Sharon’s Expansionist Legacy. HeadlinesJanuary 13, 2014 West … Continued
Amiri Baraka (1934-2014): Poet-Playwright-Activist Who Shaped Revolutionary Politics, Black Culture. HeadlinesJanuary 10, 2014 Obama Meets With Privacy Advocates in NSA Surveillance Review European Parliament Invites Snowden to Testify West Virginia Declares State of Emergency After Chemical Spill in Elk River “Humiliated” Christie Fires Aide Who Ordered Bridge Closure Karzai Releases Dozens of Prisoners in … Continued
