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Council asks city to look at its investments
The Seattle City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Occupy Seattle that calls on the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Mind Your Manners: The Secrets of Switzerland's Last Traditional Finishing School
If lunch at the Institut Villa Pierrefeu (IVP) often feels like a rehearsal, that's because it is. Under the ...Posted by Michael Mascagni -
Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist
.By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the ...Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV
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One Town's War on Gay Teens
Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Here comes everybuddy
The crucial factor is not working in a factory, or with your hands; not is it necessarily anything to do with being ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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How will technology influence the news in 2012?
Predicting the next year's news is a fool's errand, but looking at technological trends could give us a hint At the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Globalization Has Role In This Double Whammy
On the face of it, there's not much to link the London riots and the latest gyrations in global markets. The wave ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
A Rosa Parks Moment: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Sentenced to Prison
Once in a while, the moral insanity of the world we live in reveals itself to anyone who cares to look. One such ...Posted by Subramanya Sastry
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Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool
“Being a livestream he acts as ‘eyes and ears’ for the viewers. Literally. People will tell him to move the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force Amidst the New Military Urbanism
(Multimedia) We host a discussion on policing and the Occupy Wall Street movement with Chuck Wexler, director of the Police ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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