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Activism: POG lending a hand at RNC blockade (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:42:00 GMT
The Pittsburgh Organizing Group, regionally famous for its various protests and blockades, is taking its show on the road to the Republican National Convention. By Marty Levine.
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Social activism dead on college campuses? (AM New York)
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:17:41 GMT
At Columbia University, where students in 1968 took the acting dean of the college hostage, a new class of freshmen will arrive this week and hear about ways to get extra scholarship funding to pay for college.
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Theater group encourages local activism (The Red and Black)
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:15:14 GMT
By ERIN LOVETT The Red & Black Ten years ago, a bohemian district in the capital of Lithuania, gained its independence from the country. Named Uzupis, it is the first republic founded as an artistic socialist society. It has been a hub of creation and unique thought and a center for cultural freedom.
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Judicial stakes are high in next presidential election (Times Leader)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:57:46 GMT
PRESIDENTS CAN HAVE their deepest and most lasting impact on American society through their appointments to the federal courts – and, more specifically, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Lesbian activist who fought for marriage rights dies (CNN.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:38:25 GMT
Lesbian activist Del Martin, at the forefront of the battle for same-sex marriage in California, died Wednesday in San Francisco. She was 87.
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Girls make ‘Pens’ even mightier at conference (West Roxbury Transcript)
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