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Rap Reacts to Political Assassinations

Check out this free mini- mixtape. Explanation below: June 5th, 2AM: Presidential... more

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Democracy in Burundi Mixtape

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So happy you both are home. Your story was being told

just not on current. Women all over the world should regard you as hero's for... more

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1. A Target of Corporate Crime shares his story about Crime & Justice

http://ow.ly/1pUOQ My name is Gérard Angé, This is my story about a... more

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Possible Hate Crime Causes Death of a Muslim Cleric

On July 27th, an explosion is heard in the neighborhood of the small dessert town of... more

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Torture victim exonerated and released from prison

On Tuesday, July 07, 2009, 43-year-old Ronald Kitchen, who confessed under extreme... more

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How inclusive and welcoming toward LGBT Jews is your shul?

Steps shuls can take to be more inclusive and welcoming to LGBT Jews.

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The Youth Movement: RESCUE Event brings about US Bill to Save the Child Soldiers in Uganda

San Diego based NGO (www.InvisibleChildren.com) On April 25th 2009 over 80,000... more

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Jewish events (mainly arts) this week

Israeli movies, GLBT photography exhibit, and Jewish music acts this week in Manhattan.

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Online Vigilantes, Or "Crowdsourced Justice"

"The Chinese credit the 'human flesh search engine' for successfully... more

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Revolution, or more getting screwed by the rich?

This is the time of opportunity. We can demand publicly funded elections and make... more

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Worldchanging Interview: Wangari Maathai

Sustainability in a bright green world is about much more than environmentalism. It is about preserving our natural resources, yes. But it's also about seeing those resources holistically, and understanding that a healthy environment is the foundation for human health and happiness, for international security, and for economic stability.

Few people embody this vision as passionately as Dr. Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan scholar, activist and politician who in 2004 became the first woman from Africa, and the first environmentalist, to join the ranks of Nobel Peace Prize laureates.

Maathai has made a life's work of challenging tradition, questioning authority and exceeding expectations. At a time when few Kenyan women were educated, she won a scholarship to attend college in the United States, where she studied biological sciences as an undergraduate and later earned a masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After returning to Kenya and the University of Nairobi, she become became the first woman in her country to be awarded a Ph.D.

In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, which has mobilized women across Kenya to plant trees – and has paid them to do so. The Movement has since planted more than 30 million trees, and was recently depicted in the documentary Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai. Maathai has been a fearless activist and spokesperson for issues including women's economic rights, poverty and education. She was elected to Kenya's parliament by an overwhelming majority vote in December 2002, and served as Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife from 2003 until 2007.

Earlier this year, she released her third book, The Challenge for Africa, in which she puts forth realistic but ambitious strategies for Africans to end a decades-long cycle of corruption, poverty, ignorance, environmental degradation and other deep-rooted problems. The solutions, she says, must start with the African people themselves; they must embrace and exude an image of their positive potential rather than their victimhood, and that they must demand respect and justice beginning with their own governments.

We had the honor of speaking with Dr. Maathai during her visit to Seattle in April...Sustainability in a bright green world is about much more than environmentalism. It is... more

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Exclusive: The Exoneration of Thaddeus Jimenez

Thaddeus Jimenez ("TJ") was exonerated on May 1, 2009 through the work of... more

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New Movie 'American Violet' Depicts Drug War Racism

Movie description>>"Based on true events during the 2000 election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas town who is barely able to make ends meet.

While police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of the women’s county prison, the powerful local district attorney (Academy Award® nominee Michael O’Keefe) leads an extensive drug bust, sweeping her housing project with military precision. Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer.

Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison, jeopardizing her custody and risking a long prison sentence.

She chooses to fight the district attorney and the unyielding criminal justice system, risking everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also stars Academy Award® nominee Alfre Woodard, Emmy Award® winner Charles S. Dutton, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton and Xzibit.

NOTE: American Violet was initially inspired by an NPR story by Wade Goodwyn.

That was six years ago. Much of the film was informed by thousands of pages of information provided on a range of stories by the ACLU among others. A variety of media reports and legal documents, including sworn testimony, depositions and affidavits, all of which can be found on the public record also helped us find authentic patterns and voices for our storytelling. Finally, taped interviews with community members who had experienced circumstances similar to those outlined in our work proved useful.

However, American Violet is not a documentary. It is a narrative feature film that is, as it says, based on true events. Some scenes and characters have been fictionalized for dramatic effect and have no relationship to the historical record. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect this film."Movie description>>"Based on true events during the 2000 election, AMERICAN... more

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Special Ed Kids pipelined to the military

Seattle Public Schools sent out letters to families of kids over 16 who "earned... more

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Newsome VS the Governator!

Running for Governor of California! Maybe now we can finally see the end of the Reagan... more

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Murder for Hire

This is where the Australian Billionaire Murdock is taking us: On the two-year... more

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12 Year Old Makes Marriage Equality History

Amazingly articulate young girl sways legislators in Vermont. In her interview with... more

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John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic

Naomi was right. History will not vindicate Bush and his crime family. History will... more

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Free Our Economy: Healthcare Now!

Baucus told the head of CBO last Wednesday that the CBO will play a significant role... more

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