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Over 500 Israeli academics have written a letter protesting the recent banning of American foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky, into the West Bank from Jordan. In late May the famed linguist and professor was refused a day permit by Israeli authorities to make a scheduled speech at Bir Zeit University in Palestine. After questioning the 81 year-old linguist for several hours, Israeli …

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Nearly 60 years after she died, a poor black woman from Baltimore named Henrietta Lacks was finally honored with a headstone to mark her grave this past May. What made the incident remarkable was that up until a best selling book revealed her history to the world earlier this year, the story of Henrietta Lacks has …

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Immigration in Arizona and Beyond

A teenage Mexican boy was shot and killed by US border agents this week in an incident that has sparked angry words from the Mexican government. The fourteen year old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Güereca was on Mexican land apparently throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents when he was shot from across the border with Texas. An anonymous …

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Voters in several states including California head to polls today to vote for their party’s nominations and ballot initiatives as primary season is in full swing. Results from earlier elections reveal that incumbents are no longer safe from challenges from both sides of the political spectrum. In May, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter lost his seat to Joe Sestak in the …

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Attorneys are set to question potential jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom today in the long-delayed fatal shooting trial of Johannes Mehserle. The white former Bay Area Transit police officer stands accused in the shooting death of a young black man named Oscar Grant. The incident, caught on multiple cell phones and other recording devices, sparked outrage and protests …

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Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the history of BP.

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Today is day 50 of the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the struggle to cap the flow is still on-going. Even though BP has managed to install a cap that is slowing down the leak by hundreds of thousands of gallons, it is estimated that 29-39 million gallons of oil are already in …

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Voters will head to the polls in California tomorrow for the primary elections, to choose their party’s nominations for a number of seats including state Governor and Senate Representatives, as well as a number of ballot initiatives. While the Democratic Party’s Jerry Brown is running unchallenged, a stiff fight has shaped up for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Spending unprecedented amounts of money in the …

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Cohen v. California

Back in the day on June 7th, 1971, The Supreme Court of the United States overturned a ruling in the free speech case of Cohen v. California. The legal dispute stemmed from an incident in April 1968 when 19 year old Paul Cohen wore a jacket reading “Fuck the Draft” inside a Los Angeles …

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Nine people demonstrating in support of the DREAM Act were arrested yesterday after blocking traffic for several hours in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles. Two hundred immigrant rights protesters marched in a circle on Wilshire boulevard as motorists were rerouted by the police. The action was the second this week in support of the …

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