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    A Culture of Violence? The US Can Switch

    “Culture of violence,” “culture of violence.” If I hear that phrase wheeled out one more time to excuse a mass shooter, I’ll scream. That doesn’t mean I’ll head to the gun shop. Which is to...
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    Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons

    Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons American police are armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons, and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we arm our...
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    The January 6 Capitol Riot: A Local Perspective

    "Independent media bring issues to the boil; mainstream media inhale the steam."That's what Phyllis Kriegel, editor of New Directions for Women, told me back in the 1990s, and it remains true today. Cierra Hinton, publisher...
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    A New Deal for Democracy? Invest in Public Media

    Non invasive, not-for-profit, and did I mention free? If ever there was a time to invest in public media surely this is that time. The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that there’s a lot to be...
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    United Action to Keep Workers Down

    Just six percent of private sector workers belong to a union in the US, but that doesn’t mean we’re short of united action on our economy. For weeks now, employers and their lobbies have been...
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    Remembering The Black Roots of Memorial Day

    Different stories told differently matter. Consider Memorial Day and the holiday that could have been if white media hadn't erased Black history.  In April 1865, a week before President Abraham Lincoln declared the end of...
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    Take Pride in Desire

    It takes work to keep people divided, and culture can help or hurt that project. The award-winning documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen looks at history through the lens of how movies and television have...
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    India Walton is Putting Electeds on Notice

    Sometimes, the good people win, and that’s just what happened on June 22  in Buffalo, NY when community organizer, working mom and self-described socialist India Walton won the Democratic primary to stand for mayor...
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    The Disability Revolution We All Need

    A powerful scene in the Peabody Award-winning documentary Crip Camp shows a sit-down protest by over 100 mostly disabled Americans inside the old federal office building in San Francisco. The year was 1977, the...
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    Big Pharma vs The People

    I recently visited Morgantown, WV where 2,000 well-paying jobs are on the chopping block with dire implications for local people, public health, and even national security. The factory across the street from the University...
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