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Lucasville prisoners: If we must die
Four prisoners unjustly sentenced to death for the 1993 Lucasville, Ohio, prison uprising began a hunger strike on Monday, Jan. 3, to demand that they be placed on Death Row rather than be held in solitary confinement –…
// News, Opinion
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Let’s fight poverty, not the poor
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the so-called “War on Poverty” that President Lyndon B. Johnson declared when the official poverty rate was at 19 percent. Five decades later, the poverty rate stands at 15 percent with 46.5 million people…
// Opinion
Who Won the War on Poverty?
In his first State of the Union address in 1964, Lyndon Johnson declared an “unconditional war on poverty.” Since then, the War on Poverty has been under attack by the right. Ronald Reagan’s infamous 1988 quote sums up…
// Opinion
Venezuela has pop charts too
It's May Day and I'm supposed to be inspiring. Revolution for the equilibrium. That was my goal when I started at this fine publication, and today would be the day to do it. May Day, the anarchist Super Bowl, a day home to more than a few massacres…
// Opinion