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government
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Old People’s Home
Read more: Old People’s HomeThese thirteen life-like sculptures resemble familiar politicians, admirals, generals, bishops, and dictators. Portrayed as frail seniors, they sit dozing off and drooling in electric wheelchairs. They roll on a slow collision course, crashing into each other like bumper cars. The…
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Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington Rally
Read more: Tyre Nichols Murder Draws Social Justice Activists to Irvington RallySome 70 or 80 local activists, politicians and other concerned citizens gathered outside Irvington Village Hall Sunday evening, two days after the release of gut-wrenching video of the murder of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols at the hands of policemen in Memphis.…
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Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’
Read more: Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’Donald Trump has been accused of personally causing the deaths of 40,000 Americans through his “reckless” handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new website launched on Wednesday under the provocative title Trump Death Clock. The website, created by independent…
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REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Read more: REDACT: a world without net neutralityThe elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom…
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Citizen Four
Read more: Citizen Four“CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate…
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Above and Beyond Memorial
Read more: Above and Beyond Memorial“The massive “Above and Beyond Memorial” will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for…
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Hip Hop Caucus
Read more: Hip Hop CaucusMISSION The mission of the Hip Hop Caucus is to organize young people to be active in elections, policymaking and service projects. We mobilize, educate, and engage young people, ages 14 to 40, on the social, issues that directly impact…
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Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Read more: Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social changeHave you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…
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Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museums
Read more: Brazil to give $25 monthly culture stipend to workers to go to movies, read books or visit museumsBRASILIA (AFP).- Despite the economic crisis, Brazil announced Thursday it planned to give workers here a 50-real ($25) monthly stipend for cultural expenses like movies, books or museums. “In all developed countries, culture plays a key role in the economy,”…
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Brooklyn Bridge Lottery
Read more: Brooklyn Bridge LotteryOn March 24, 1992, a fake inter-office memorandum from the then Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins, was leaked to the press. A handwritten Post-it note was attached which read “Thought you might be interested in seeing…