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Rachel Dolezal Is Flat Broke, But Unapologetic About Identifying as Black
Rachel Dolezal, the former civil rights activist whose claim to be black caused outcry in 2015, has said she is living in penury and facing the prospect of losing her home in a new interview Yet Dolezal, who was a N.A.A.C.P. branch president when it was discovered she had been born to white parents, said in the interview with the Guardian that she will not "apologise and grovel" for her actions. She generated global headlines after questions from a local reporter led to her parents releasing childhood photos of her and denouncing her as a fraud.
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Reinventing Democracy in America Starts by Voting, Then Building an Accountability Movement
We, the people, have more power than we think. To exercise our power, we must insist that our elected representatives serve us. If they don’t, we need to vote them out as quickly as possible.
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Black Activism During the Civil War
History professor and author Douglas Egerton discusses black activism during the Civil War and into the early years of Reconstruction.
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Saudi Human Rights Activist Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
Rights group Amnesty International says a court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a peaceful dissident to nine years in prison and banned him from travel abroad for another nine years on charges related to his civil rights work. Issa al-Hamid is a founding member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights, known by its Arabic acronym HASEM. Several HASEM members are serving similarly lengthy jail sentences.
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In Their Own Words: Chen Guangcheng and Christian Bale
How does a blind lawyer escape high-security house arrest in China? Christian Bale tells the story of 'the most dangerous man in China'.
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'Coddled' Student Activists Complain There's Not Enough Time for Homework
According to a recent article in Brown University’s campus newspaper, some students are now complaining that their coursework is getting in the way of their political activism. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” The Brown Daily Herald quoted one undergraduate student as saying.
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Tania Kovats on Evaporating Sculptures and Art Activism
As the climate summit continues in Paris, we meet artist Tania Kovats, who insists that the fate of the oceans is inextricably linked to our own.
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Scholars and activists stand in solidarity with shuttered research-sharing sites
This week, the scholarly publishing giant Elsevier filed suit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, two sites where academics and researchers practiced civil disobedience by sharing the academic papers that Elsevier claims -- despite having acquired the papers for free from researchers, and despite having had them refereed and overseen by editorial boards staffed by more volunteering academics.
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We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins | Jeff Sparrow
There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls
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The New Intolerance of Student Activism
A fight over Halloween costumes at Yale devolves into an effort to censor dissenting views.
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Do Black Lives Matter Movement? What the 2016 Presidential Election Candidates Think
Pro:Clinton,Sanders; Con:Carson,Christie,Huckabee; Not Clear:Bush,Cruz,Fiorina,Graham,Kasich,O'Malley,Paul,Rubio,Trump
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Anonymous threatens to release 1,000 names of KKK members
The hacking collective Anonymous has threatened to reveal the names of 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, in a move which could cause immense embarrassment for supporters of the white supremacist organisation.
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Brave Portland Woman Breaks Up Planned Parenthood Protest by Chanting “Yeast Infections!”
During her shift at Portland, Oregon’s Purringtons Cat Lounge on Sunday, Mary Numair looked out the street-facing windows and saw a woman carrying a sign.
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In China, credit score is now affected by friends' activism
China just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t just affected by how well you manage credit – it also reflects how well your political opinions are in line with Chinese official opinions, and whether your friends’ are, too.
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One Million Moms’ Tax-Exempt Outrage Industry
The online arm of the American Family Association is making crazy money—and paying no taxes—off of their campaigns against Chobani, the Muppets, and rainbow Doritos.
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What Drought? Nestle Pays Only $524 To Extract 27,000,000 Gallons Of California Drinking Water
Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than it would arguably care to be - though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience.
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The dA-Zed guide to Ai Weiwei
Art, activism and asteroids: in honour of his upcoming Royal Academy show, we give you the need-to-know on China’s cultural juggernaut
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Footage shows Black Lives Matter activists confronting Hillary Clinton
Democratic candidate says her aim is to change laws, not hearts, in awkward exchange blaming Clinton and her husband for mass jailing of black Americans
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SeaWorld accused of sending employee to infiltrate animal rights protests
Peta released photos of a SeaWorld employee and an activist who urged others to get ‘aggressive’ against SeaWorld – and they appear to be the same man.
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The old critique of “judicial activism” is back with a vengeance.
Many of the liberal decisions this spring, including the Obamacare, gerrymandering, Confederate flag and fair-housing rulings, were not “activist” at all. In fact, they were examples of judicial restraint since they deferred to the determinations of other branches of government.
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