civil rights
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Virginia Commonwealth University students defend free speech
Virginia Commonwealth University administration proposed changes to the student code of contact with broad language that could be used to…
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Supreme Court gives OK to routine strip searches
On April 2, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that anyone who is arrested for any offense may be strip-searched before…
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Presidential candidate Peta Lindsay: Fight for justice for Trayvon Martin!
What was so threatening about Trayvon Martin? Only the color of his skin. The 17-year-old Black youth was unarmed with…
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Presidential candidate Peta Lindsay: Fight for justice for Trayvon Martin!
What was so threatening about Trayvon Martin? Only the color of his skin. The 17-year-old Black youth was unarmed with…
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Candidata presidencial Peta Lindsay: Lucha por justicia para Trayvon Martin!
Mientras que luchamos por Trayvon Martin y cada otro joven negro, también luchemos por un futuro donde no habrá mas…
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Oakland occupiers targeted with injunctions
Occupy Oakland participant Joseph Briones was arrested on Feb. 8. His crime? Walking through a public square. The Alameda County…
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DC Mayor, U.S. Conference of Mayors dramatizing, inflating cost of Occupy DC
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is exposing that the Mayor’s office, in coordination with the U.S. Conference of Mayors,…
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Marches, rallies further the radical legacy of Dr. King
On Jan. 16, communities gathered to commemorate a true hero of the working class, who fought what he called the…
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Capitalism, unemployment and mass incarceration
Under the blows of neoliberal policies, automation and a depressed economy, tens of millions have been cast out of the…
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Congress, administration approve indefinite military detention of US citizens
Some language in a recently approved law could be interpreted as authorizing extreme forms of repression against a wide range…
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