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Body Cameras Are Not Pointed at the Police; They're Pointed at You
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Describe Fleeing War-Torn Ukraine for Russian Camps</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Halyna Mokrushyna, Truthout:</strong> Refugee camps in R=
ussia welcome Ukrainians fleeing the violence in the Lugansk and Donetsk re=
gions of Ukraine, where the Kiev government is bombing its own citizens.</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=3DwuIn%2Fb6KEkOBB%2Fl9axEX8c%2BSVwolOgxT"><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=3DF882sgu7A3N%2Bu0O2B7YBTs%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Feelin=
g Trapped in a Dead-End System? Cartoonist's Affirmations Encourage Resista=
nce</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Mark Hand, Truthout:</strong> Organizers for social chan=
ge undoubtedly experience periods of burnout. Cartoonist, writer and organi=
zer Stephanie McMillan saw the feelings of hopelessness faced by her fellow=
activists and wanted to do something to help people overcome them.</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=3Db2wWbgvr7iP1iNx3kmGxi8%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Read=
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=3DssJ9nOf%2FC%2BZ9jGX4gKRylc%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Shot=
and Gassed: Thousands of Protected Birds Killed Annually</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Rachael Bale and Tom Knudson, Reveal from The Center for Inve=
stigative Reporting:</strong> More than 300 species of migratory birds=
have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a =
wide range of business activities and public facilities under what's called=
the "depredation permit" program.</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=3DsqEQQy5QgqNgLefh0sDQqc%2BSVwolOgxT"><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=3DUUJiFYTmpuF1PtvppMtMh8%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Tony Jud=
t: The Best Man Among Us</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Jonathan Freedland, The New York Review of Books:</strong>=
60;The weight that Tony Judt placed on memory brings us closer to the heart=
of his writings' enduring value. Though able to speak of the grand, sweepi=
ng forces of history or geopolitics, he never lost sight of the centrality =
of people's lived experience in shaping their ideas, attitudes and longings=
.</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=3DXpDxByJGrCGxQB7U0kh%2FU8%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Re=
ad 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=3D%2Fp4lrRRUKqWKaGxj8aQ9h8%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>The Bi=
ggest Lessons Nepal Will Take Away From Its Tragedy</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service:</strong> Although N=
epal's challenges are unique compared to some of the worst disasters in the=
region's history, it still stands to take away valuable lessons that will =
hopefully prevent unnecessary damages and loss of life in the case of futur=
e catastrophes.</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=3Dm0TEd9okVALODphhdMU1f8%2BSVwolOgxT"><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=3DjkJeuc6qr7pXgmT7%2B%2FMwus%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Mexi=
can Auto Workers Fired for Protesting Sexual Harassment</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Wendy Thompson, Labor Notes:</strong> Twenty Mexican aut=
o workers were fired for defending a co-worker from a harassing supervisor =
at the new Mazda assembly plant in Salamanca. Despite a law that allows wor=
kers the right to return to work after unjust firings, companies operating =
in Mexico can bank on getting away with firing permanently.</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=3DpsvcBXpAUl6I0tHSt2RMbc%2BSVwolOgxT"><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=3DvUGy3pbO4Id8zPn5Y0tp%2F8%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Hijack=
ing the Anthropocene</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Ian Angus, Climate & Capitalism:</strong> The anti-g=
reen Breakthrough Institute has hijacked the Anthropocene and assigned it a=
catchier label: ecomodernism. This sows confusion by promoting a caricatur=
e that has nothing to do with the impact of human activity on the environme=
nt, but everything to do with preserving the status quo.</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=3DnQQ423uP8ii%2BhcVAwmcF%2Bs%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>=
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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=3DObFylrR7yRgE7hePcQaoIM%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>Obamacar=
e's Health Plan Choice Benefits Are Vastly Overrated</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>Dr. Philip Caper, Bangor Daily News:</strong> We are dis=
covering that choice of insurance plans comes at the cost of losing our cho=
ice of doctors and hospitals, as insurance companies vainly attempt to cont=
rol their premium prices by restricting their networks of "providers."</p>
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: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style=3D=
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ia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dy7hLTLEwRgVnIUe5TVAcpc%2BSVwolOgxT"><strong>The Late=
st Victim in the War on Whistleblowers</strong></a></p>
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lor: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:=
1.1"><strong>John Kiriakou, OtherWords:</strong> If you go public wit=
h evidence of government malfeasance, you must prepare yourself for the wor=
st. Jeffrey Sterling learned the hard way that the government will throw th=
e book at anyone who embarrasses it.</p>
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1.1"><b>Upside Down World</b> staff reflect on a Zapatista tribute to fall=
en comrades, a celebration and a seminar to "provoke thought, reflection, c=
ritique"; <b>Denton's "Frackettes"</b> respond to Texas' legislative attack=
on local democracy with a new satirical performance; <b>Graham Peebles</b>=
examines how suicide is a worldwide epidemic; <b>Kelly Hayes</b> looks at =
how Chicago's top cop has announced the commencement of his "listening tour=
"; <b>J. Mijin Cha</b> asks Duke University Professor Jerry Hough to stop u=
sing her as his racist scapegoat; <b>Raquel Rios</b> offers a Harlem retros=
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ike; <b>Ed Kinane</b> lists the shortcomings of Washington's drone policy r=
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appalling spill record of Plains All American Pipeline, the company respon=
sible for the Santa Barbara coast oil spill; <b>Dean Baker</b> explains how=
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her to North Korea; <b>Mark Taylor-Canfield</b> documents disturbing crowd=
control measures used by the Seattle police; <b>John Dear</b> promotes non=
violence; <b>Joshua Tartakovsky</b> reports from Ukraine; and more.</p>
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