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Texas Farmer Fights Foreign Corporation, Keystone XL Pipeline To Save Her Land

After TransCanada used eminent domain to seize her property, Julia Crawford sees the Texas Supreme Court as her last resort to save her land.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Since 2008 Julia Trigg Crawford has been fighting to keep her 650-acre farm in Direct, Texas, from being transformed into another portion of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada says it needs the land in order to connect the Gulf Coast portion of the pipeline with the Nebraska to Oklahoma portion of the pipeline, as well as to pump tar

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Catholic Students Rally To Save Gay Vice Principal’s Job

Although the Archdiocese of Seattle and the high school praise Mark Zmuda’s performance, they forced him to resign after learning of his same-sex marriage.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

The cafeteria at Eastside Catholic High School in Washington state was filled with hundreds of students last week, as the student body came together to publicly vocalize their disapproval for what they referred to as the forced resignation of the school’s vice principal, Mark Zmuda, after rumors began to circulate he married his same-sex partner in

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Civil Rights Groups Push To Change Legality Of Border Body Cavity Drug Searches

A U.S. citizen has accused Customs and Border Patrol officers of sexual assault after she endured a six-hour anal and vaginal cavity search.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Are U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers violating Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights as part of a last ditch effort to win a battle in the failed war on drugs? It’s a question that many civil-and immigration-rights activists have begun to ask after a citizen came forward saying she was forced to have a six-hour anal and vaginal cavity

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The Arc Of Justice And The Long Run

Hope, History, and Unpredictability.

Rebecca Solnit
بواسطة Rebecca Solnit

North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Some trees bear fruit long after the people who have planted them have died, and one Massachusetts pear tree, planted by a Puritan in 1630, is still bearing fruit far

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Christmas Carnage: AU Peacekeepers Killed In Central African Republic

Central African Republic teeters on Somalia-style chaos, as the country has been hindered by five coups and several rebellions since independence in 1960.

Les Neuhaus
بواسطة Les Neuhaus

The already inflamed situation in the Central African Republic intensified on Christmas Day, after fierce fighting left six peacekeepers from neighboring Chad dead in the capital, according to various reports. In the last 48 hours, the violence in Bangui, the country’s decaying capital, also left bodies reportedly strewn about the

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The Gentrification Of The American Chinatown

Gentrification threatens Chinatowns thriving commercial activities, affordable homes for generations of immigrant families, and a legacy of Asian-American history.

Rebecca Myles
بواسطة Rebecca Myles

Gentrification is not only eroding America’s Chinatowns, but robbing the country of important cultural and economic centers relied upon by Asian Americans and immigrant families, as a recent study found that Chinatowns are becoming more white and affluent, with fewer family households.  The Asian American Education and Legal Defense Fund’s 2013

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