03 July 2013
Obama, Mandela and Leonard Peltier
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Harvey Wasserman
Barack Obama has taken his two daughters on a dramatic visit to the Robben Island cell once occupied by Nelson Mandela.

Let's hope he takes them next to the one now occupied by Leonard Peltier.

Mandela was...
01 July 2013
Obama: Provide Independent Medical Examiners to Guantanamo Detainees
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Care2 Petition Action
The UN and the World Medical Association both require Guantanamo detainees to have access to independent medical advice and medical examinations when they need it. But they aren't getting it!

In response to this violation and...
26 June 2013
Response to Supreme Court with push for new voting rights laws, amendments
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Bob Fitrakis
By and 5-4 vote today, June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court has sanctioned the return of apartheid in nine states in our union that have a long legacy of blocking black and Latino voters.

The Court struck down Section 4 of...
14 June 2013
"Worst in the Nation"
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Stephanie Kight
The new legislation introduced in the Ohio House is "one of the nation's all-time worst abortion bills," according to Think Progress. I agree.

Between the state budget and bills intended to shame and demean our patients, Ohio...
07 June 2013
Stop spying on Americans
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CREDO
Recent news stories have revealed the breathtaking scope of President Obama's indiscriminate spying on American citizens who aren't suspected of any wrongdoing. The government has been using data from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook,...
20 May 2013
Earthquakes near Fukushima
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Carol Wolman
Earthquakes continue to rattle the damaged nuclear facility at Fukushima Daiichi. The list below shows only the strongest ones- there are weaker ones almost daily. The good news is that the radioactivity does decay with time, decreasing...

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