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Bubbies & Zaydes (Grandparents) for Peace in the Middle East has a peace vigil from 12-1 PM on the first and third Fridays of each month. Everyone is invited to come.
The goal is to encourage respect for people's rights, peace, and reconciliation in the Holy Land. It is held at the corner of 19th & JFK Boulevard.
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Deena Stryker | 04-23 RT is airing an incredible documentary on the Republic of Chechnya, known to the outside world for having been practically destroyed by repeated separatist wars with Russia.
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Glen Ford - Black Agenda Report | 04-08 After four years of maneuvering, President Obama finally has his White Whale, Social Security, within harpooning distance.
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Rich Gardner | 03-25 One of Philadelphia's Gold Star Mothers, Celeste Zappala, was interviewed by WHYY on Tuesday, the 19th of March and the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
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Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer | 03-03 With less than transparency, the AFL-CIO just issued a statement endorsing “expanding the nation’s pipeline system.” Although it did not explicitly endorse the Keystone XL pipeline, the labor federation nevertheless managed to extend its blessing to the project while hiding behind vague generalities.

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Angola 3 News |
05-23
If given the attention it deserves, an important new book is certain to make significant contributions to the public discussions of US prison policy. The author, Shawn Griffith, was released last year from Florida’s prison system at the age of 41, after spending most of his life, almost 24 years, behind bars, including seven in solitary confinement.
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Justin Raimondo |
05-18
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Kusinski was arrested the other day for groping a woman in a parking lot at one in the morning in Washington, D.C.'s Crystal City. Just another incident involving sexual coercion and an American solider, one of a number of recent incidents that have dramatized the alarming extent of the problem -- except for one thing: Kusinski was in charge of the Air Force's Sexual Assault and Prevention unit.
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Angola 3 News |
05-11
May 8, lawyers for Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit regarding his placement in solitary confinement for over 22 consecutive years. Last month, when a 30-day action campaign was launched, lawyers promised to file this litigation if Maroon had not been transferred into general population by the morning of the 8th.
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Thomas Quinn |
05-07
Sharing Best Practices - Teachers Take Collaborative Approach to
Professional Development
May 21st Professional Collaboration at Central High School
Philadelphia, May 7, 2013 - This Election Day, Philadelphia public school
teachers from nine different schools will gather at Central High School to
exercise their right to choose. Instead of selecting their favorite
candidate, however, these educators will select what areas of professional
development will benefit them the most in furthering their practice.
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LaInteligentsia (Crossposted from Occcupy Philly Media) |
03-31
When Occupy Philly protesters walked into court today (05 Mar 2013), they received the vindication they needed to continue their fight against corporate greed and government corruption. They were found not guilty of criminal conspiracy and defiant trespass for their part in a bank action that took place at Wells Fargo in Philadelphia in November of 2011 during the beginning of the occupy movement. These bank actions not only happened in Philadelphia but in cities all across the country such as New York, Oakland, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Boston as part of a national strategy to inform the American public that banks such as Wells Fargo had engaged in criminal, unjust business practices.
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