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As Los Angeles is mired in an ever increasing budget deficit, community organizations are calling on Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council to focus resources on social services. The LA Coalition against State Violence is calling on officials to reduce city money allocated for the Los Angeles Police Department and invest instead in …

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In what was the bloodiest day in Iraq so far this year, two suicide bombings killed more than seventy people yesterday. The first attack took place in the national capital of Baghdad when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Iraqi national police officers who were handing out aid. At least 25 were killed, six of which were …

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A new essay in the latest issue of Adbusters Magazine by Douglas Haddow paints a scathing critique of pornography: not as a moral diatribe but from the perspective of a modern man deeply concerned with the negative effects of pornography on men as a result of isolating over-consumption, and lacking any significant analog to feminism. …

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A week-long Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change concludes today in Anchorage, Alaska. The gathering of hundreds of indigenous delegates from around the world will bring the summit to a close with a declaration and an action plan to be submitted to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen this December. To that end, representatives …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about racial profiling.

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The Armenian Genocide

Back in the day on April 24th, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government strategically arrested more 200 Armenian intellectual leaders in Constantinople. This mass detention of influential journalists, political leaders, and artists among others was followed by another wave of arrests of hundreds more. Noted as the “tripwire” event that set off the …

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The teenager captured last week in a showdown off the Somali coast has arrived in the US for trial. He will be the first person to be charged with piracy in the US in over a century – if convicted he will face a mandatory life sentence. The 5 ft 2 in Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is …

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Acclaimed up-and-coming playwright Octavio Solis, has made waves with his lyrical play about family and identity named simply “Lydia.” After two successful runs at the Denver Theater Center and the Yale Repertory Theatre, Lydia now arrives at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Set in the 1970s in El Paso, Texas, near the border with …

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Almost two decades ago Congress ordered the EPA to curb toxic mercury pollution from more than 150 cement kilns in 38 states. The EPA, ignoring The Clean Air Act, along with several subsequent Federal Court Orders, has been dragging its feet and since 1990, corporations have been reaping billions in profits with no legal obligation to …

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AIDS Virus Discovered

Back in the day on April 23rd, 1984, scientists in the United States announced the discovery of a virus called HTLV-3 that caused the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – or AIDS. The news that came exactly twenty-five years ago was hailed as a “monumental breakthrough,” by U.S. Health Secretary Margaret Heckler. With this …

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