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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Read more: Pink Chaddi CampaignIn late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they…
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When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…
Read more: When Verbal Abuse Becomes Real Weapon…Institute of psychology in Shenyang, a major city of China, recently reveals 6 most frequently used utterances in verbal abuse of children among local parents: “Garbage”, “You know nothing but eating”, “Pig head”, “Shame on you”, “Why don’t you die”,…
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The Panama Papers
Read more: The Panama PapersA giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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This is America
Read more: This is America(NEWS 8) — A day after pulling double-duty as both the host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover was garnering attention on Sunday for another reason. Social media blew up this weekend with reactions to Glover’s…
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P.A.I.N.
Read more: P.A.I.N.Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was…
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Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Read more: Detroit Black Community Food Security NetworkFrom the site’s “About Us:” The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) was formed in February 2006 to address food insecurity in Detroit’s Black community, and to organize members of that community to play a more active leadership role…
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Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Read more: Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in BerlinIt was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in…
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The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”
Read more: The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th’s Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and the room went…
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Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection Law
Read more: Thousands march against amendment to Animal Protection LawThousands of animal rights activists marched against a draft law on Sunday that would make changes to Turkey’s Animal Protection Law No. 5199, seeking to introduce practices currently used in other countries such as collecting stray animals from the streets…
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Liberation Lab
Read more: Liberation LabOn April 30th NYU in conjunction with Free University held liberation lab in Washington Square Park from 11 30 Am until roughly 5 or 6pm. The day was very festive and full of amazing talks, performances, installations and discussions. I…
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Tamms Year Ten
Read more: Tamms Year TenTamms Year Ten is an all-volunteer grassroots coalition of artists, prisoners, men formerly incarcerated in Tamms, family members and other people of conscience. In 2008, at the ten-year anniversary of the opening of the Tamms supermax prison, the group launched…
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Walden, A Game
Read more: Walden, A GameIt’s certainly a long way from Grand Theft Auto. Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Walden” is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling “the world’s most improbable video game”: Walden, a Game. Instead of offering the thrills of stealing, violence…