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Hilary Klein: Women Are at the Forefront of the Zapatista Revolution

Klein: From the civil rights movement in the United States to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, from the campaign against apartheid in South Africa to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle...

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The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Rapists, But Almost Nobody Uses It

Miller: What’s striking about ViCAP today: the paucity of information it contains. Only about 1,400 police agencies in the U.S., out of roughly 18,000, participate in the system. The database receives...

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Lee Fang: Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net...

From the article: MMTC has gone to bat for other major media companies, arguing in 2011 that minority communities would benefit from the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. After urging support for the deal,...

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VIDEO: Mnar Muhawesh | Former CIA Agent John Kiriakou Takes Us Inside The...

Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, is supporting many of the same terror groups the United States claims to be fighting in its so-called “war on terror.” By Mnar Muhawesh  Mint Press News  September 23,...

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Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries!

For example: We may be familiar with Nellie Bly as a muckraking journalist, but unaware that she beat Phileas Fogg’s fictional record of going around the world in 80 days.

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Chris Hedges | Prostitution: Being Raped for a Living

Activist Rachel Moran talks about her new book "Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution."

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Ann Jones | Afghanistan “After” the American War: Once More Down the Rabbit Hole

Tomgram: Ann Jones, The Never-Ending War. Jones has been remarkably, consistently, undeniably ahead of the curve on the conflict, a reality reflected in her revelatory look at the deeply personal costs...

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I Am the Beggar of the World: Poems by Afghan Women

Hakimi: The title of the book, which was taken from this last landay, is an epigraph of the lives of women indentured from birth by a patriarchal culture. The perils they face in their homeland,...

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Nazila Fathi: Until We Are Free

The 1979 Islamic Revolution stripped Ebadi of her judgeship after it banned women from holding the position, forcing her to stay home and raise her two daughters. A decade later, she opened a law firm...

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A Foreign Policy That Can Change Everything for Everyone

War is the weaponization of discrimination, classism and misogyny. So why are so few women talking about it?

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HER

Naomi Wadler, Emma Gonzales, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kiran Gandhi (Madame Gandhi), Ellen DeGeneres, Chelsea Manning, Janelle Monae, Gloria Steinem, Laverne Cox, Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner)...

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Rebellions! Worldwide: Brazil, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti and more

Haiti: 4 More Dead in Longest Bout Of Protests Against President Telesur  October 12, 2019 So far, around 17 people have died and almost two hundred have been injured in the month-long protests. At...

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Sanctions Are an Act of War

"Sanctions can be more deadly than bullets."

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War, U.S. Imperialism, Women and the Environment

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."

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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Feminism in the Time of Coronavirus

"The Future May Be Female, But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal"

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Today is Women’s Equality Day, August 26th

"...these new Jim Crow tactics that have blocked the vote of millions of voters, mostly people of color."

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Remembering the Uighur Women We Ignored, updated March 1, 2021

"The girl became completely different after that, she wouldn't speak to anyone, she sat quietly staring as if in a trance," Ziawudun said. "There were many people in those cells who lost their minds."

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FRSO Presents International Women’s Day

The current status of women in the U.S., patriarchy, wages, and also women making a difference.

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Anti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire

Exoticized and fetishized Asian American women have borne a dual burden of both racism and sexism, viewed on one hand as submissive and sexually available “lotus blossoms” and on the other as...

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Peasant Farmers Protest: Free Trade Isn’t Free for Haitian Women and Haitian...

The struggle of women is the struggle of the Haitian people!

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