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Radical Art Is an Act of Uncompromising Passionate Resistance
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t r u t h o u t | 05.18
Radical Art Is an Act of Uncompromising Passionate Resistance
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23703-radical-art-is-an-act-of-uncompromi=
sing-passionate-resistance=20
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fiant of any imposition of form or content by any economic system, artistic=
academy or political status quo.
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23740-trans-pacific-partnership-another-t=
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on of trade to entrench corporate profit making. Economist John Weeks skewe=
rs the free trade dogma that is the ideological justification and corporate=
sales pitch for neoliberal globalization.
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s Back Into Illegal Abortion Providers
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as-new-abortion-law-is-the-first-step-in-turning-private-physicians-back-in=
to-illegal-abortion-providers=20
Robin Marty, Truthout: While clinics are being shut down throughout the cou=
ntry by restrictive and medically unnecessary state laws, patients may soon=
learn that their last hope - their own private physician - has lost the op=
portunity to provide abortion care as well.
Truthout Interviews Ayanna Banks Harris on Stand Your Ground Laws and Repro=
ductive Justice
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23776-truthout-interviews-ayanna-banks-h=
arris-on-stand-your-ground-laws-and-reproductive-justice=20
Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Ayanna Banks Harris talks about Marissa Alexander,=
a jailed mother who faces a possible 60 years in prison - in a state that =
has Stand Your Ground laws on the books - for firing a warning shot to keep=
her estranged husband from attacking her.
Returning Equality to the Campaign Finance Debate
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23769-returning-equality-to-the-campa=
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Victoria Bassetti, Brennan Center for Justice: If money is speech, then ric=
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anathema to our conception of how a democracy works.
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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23770-saudi-iran-thaw-troubles-the-neocon=
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Paul R. Pillar, Consortium News: Neocons and other hardliners are still fan=
ning the flames of confrontation with Iran, but the recent thawing of relat=
ions between Iran and Saudi Arabia is making the hawks' work more difficult=
.
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nds-from-walmart=20
Laura Garcia and Molly Rusk, Yes! Magazine: On May 15, the city of Portland=
, Oregon got rid of $9 million, or 25 percent, of its investments in Walmar=
t. The initiative also prohibits the city from purchasing Walmart bonds in =
the future.
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hot-each-year-in-the-us=20
Lois Beckett, ProPublica: How many Americans have been shot over the past 1=
0 years? No one really knows. We don't even know if the number of people sh=
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mes Boggs firmly believed that the destructive impact of automation was not=
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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23774-wonderfully-deceptive-superfood=
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Jill Richardson, OtherWords: Pom Wonderful made such outlandish claims that=
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The Other Side of Paradise
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Serena Nanda, The Indypendent: From Miami to West Palm Beach, Florida's Gol=
d Coast is not just paradise for the 1%, but also for middle- and working-c=
lass people. A closer look at the region highlights its massive inequalitie=
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t about an alternative to investing in railcars that carry explosive fracke=
d fuel; James and Jean Anton say that the bosses lost in Vermont with the p=
assage of a GMO food labeling proposition; Dr. James Zogby expresses disapp=
ointment over John Kerry's walk-back of his "apartheid state" comment; Ri=
chard Waddell argues that "surfer dude" Jason Greenslate does deserve food =
stamps; Bill Henderson wonders why the Obama administration continues to mi=
seducate Americans about the global scope of climate change; Zachary Norris=
and Eveline Shen decry the treatment of struggling mother Shanesha Taylor =
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view; James Mitchell wonders what John Lennon, a target for government scru=
tiny, would say now about mass surveillance; the Confederation of Progressi=
ve Trade Unions characterizes the deadly mining disaster in Soma, Turkey as=
murder; Manash Bhattacharjee exposes what's at stake in India's general el=
ections; Dr. Michael I. Niman excoriates the Obama response to looming env=
ironmental destruction; and more.
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1.1"><strong>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> To be a radical and revo=
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ny economic system, artistic academy or political status quo.</p>
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. Economist John Weeks skewers the free trade dogma that is the ideological=
justification and corporate sales pitch for neoliberal globalization.</p>
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tate laws, patients may soon learn that their last hope - their own private=
physician - has lost the opportunity to provide abortion care as well.</p>
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ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D39wYnfCUyu1AI3tnKqhGdB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Trutho=
ut Interviews Ayanna Banks Harris on Stand Your Ground Laws and Reproductiv=
e Justice</strong></a></p>
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1.1"><strong>Ted Asregadoo, Truthout:</strong> Ayanna Banks Harris ta=
lks about Marissa Alexander, a jailed mother who faces a possible 60 years =
in prison - in a state that has Stand Your Ground laws on the books - for f=
iring a warning shot to keep her estranged husband from attacking her.</p>
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tch the Interview</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D6BHw0ThumTIQQq16kOxK7R%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Return=
ing Equality to the Campaign Finance Debate</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Victoria Bassetti, Brennan Center for Justice:</strong> =
If money is speech, then rich people have more speech and more say in our p=
olitical system, and that is anathema to our conception of how a democracy =
works.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dshjfe4b%2FL6WHlu%2BmOW%2FZPh%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><str=
ong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DLZ79wPGx%2BEGNQBmYz2MzKh%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Saud=
i-Iran Thaw Troubles the Neocons</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Paul R. Pillar, Consortium News:</strong> Neocons and ot=
her hardliners are still fanning the flames of confrontation with Iran, but=
the recent thawing of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is making th=
e hawks' work more difficult.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DdASm0h9QDN%2BNzc2HtBik0B%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>=
Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DD6%2FTYy8fJ9ygSJBlccARgB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Port=
land Is First US City to Divest Funds From Walmart</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Laura Garcia and Molly Rusk, Yes! Magazine:</strong> On =
May 15, the city of Portland, Oregon got rid of $9 million, or 25 percent, =
of its investments in Walmart. The initiative also prohibits the city from =
purchasing Walmart bonds in the future.</p>
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olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D4u4O0%2BB%2BgakOtKS9XJn4ZB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><stron=
g>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DjCyoAY29gtgtRO42dsmiJR%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Why Do=
n't We Know How Many People Are Shot Each Year in the US?</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Lois Beckett, ProPublica:</strong> How many Americans ha=
ve been shot over the past 10 years? No one really knows. We don't even kno=
w if the number of people shot annually has gone up or down over that time.=
</p>
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olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D35k%2FtWwqR7qAGlZLktPWcB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>=
Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D7jepzdnGFsICdH4FdFSBiR%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Lesson=
s From James Boggs: Capitalist Automation in the 21st Century</strong></a><=
/p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report:</strong> Black Amer=
ican revolutionary worker James Boggs firmly believed that the destructive =
impact of automation was not a problem of technology itself, but rather of =
the capitalist system that employed the technology.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dvzl620S9vIhAe3A5owSz4R%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Re=
ad the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color=
: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DDnis6JlN82CW3bFpsMTlgR%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Wonder=
fully Deceptive Superfood Marketing</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Jill Richardson, OtherWords:</strong> Pom Wonderful made=
such outlandish claims that the Federal Trade Commission stepped in and to=
ld them to cut it out.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D9Mn4I9bl0TghZbMC%2FTdiCR%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>=
Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DYLGY9WkRiHBU%2BGeV%2FHwoKB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>Th=
e Other Side of Paradise</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Serena Nanda, The Indypendent:</strong> From Miami to We=
st Palm Beach, Florida's Gold Coast is not just paradise for the 1%, but al=
so for middle- and working-class people. A closer look at the region highli=
ghts its massive inequalities.</p>
<p style=3D"margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;c=
olor: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a styl=
e=3D"text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.c=
om/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D8TuvIc2z477GDmz2LpBv%2BcayPnKGHf07"><strong>Read=
the Article</strong></a> </p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
"text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href=3D"http://org2.salsalabs.com/d=
ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DgMiMUzSbxIcZR5K2GpR4FB%2B2Wq%2BeOU8K"><strong>This w=
eek in Speakout:</strong></a></p>
<p style=3D"margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;co=
lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1">Barbara Ellis writes an open letter to Warren Buffett about an altern=
ative to investing in railcars that carry explosive fracked fuel; James and=
Jean Anton say that the bosses lost in Vermont with the passage of a GMO f=
ood labeling proposition; Dr. James Zogby expresses disappointment over Jo=
hn Kerry's walk-back of his "apartheid state" comment; Richard Waddell arg=
ues that "surfer dude" Jason Greenslate does deserve food stamps; Bill Hend=
erson wonders why the Obama administration continues to miseducate American=
s about the global scope of climate change; Zachary Norris and Eveline Shen=
decry the treatment of struggling mother Shanesha Taylor who faces crimina=
l charges for leaving her kids in a car during a job interview; James Mitch=
ell wonders what John Lennon, a target for government scrutiny, would say n=
ow about mass surveillance; the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions c=
haracterizes the deadly mining disaster in Soma, Turkey as murder; Manash B=
hattacharjee exposes what's at stake in India's general elections; Dr. Mic=
hael I. Niman excoriates the Obama response to looming environmental destru=
ction; and more.</p>
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