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Eight Years Is Long Enough: What You Can Do to End the War in Afghanistan

Posted on Oct 7, 2009, Source: The Nation

Antiwar activists are reallocating their attention from Iraq towards Afghanistan, organizing protests and demonstrations for the coming weeks.

Video: The Fight For Food

Posted on Sep 4, 2009, Source: The Nation

Food is increasingly becoming a political issue. Here's a list of notable campaigns focused on increasing access by all to healthy food.

Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Posted on Aug 31, 2009, Source: TheNation.com

If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes.

The Public Option Needs Your Help

Posted on Aug 28, 2009, Source: TheNation.com

This summer's ferocious rightwing organizing against public health care needs to be countered with more organizing. Here are some ways to do it.

Shameless: Exploitative Fast Food Chain Chipotle Sponsoring Free Screenings of Food, Inc.

Posted on Jul 20, 2009, Source: TheNation.com

Chipotle has resisted efforts by farm-workers demanding a commitment to ending the brutal exploitation in Florida's tomato fields.

Thinking Chipotle For Lunch? Read This First If You Care About Workers' Rights

Posted on Jun 29, 2009, Source: TheNation.com

The country's fastest-growing fast food chain has resisted calls for a commitment to ending the brutal exploitation in Florida's tomato fields.

Screw Seth Rogen, Date Rape Isn't Funny

Posted on Apr 11, 2009, Source: The Nation

Is date rape funny? Seth Rogen and his crew apparently think so.

Who Is David Paterson and What Kind of Governor Will He Be?

Posted on Mar 11, 2008, Source: The Nation

His two most obvious, if not salient, features are that he's blind and he's black, which would make him the first blind governor in the country.

Students Suspended For Promoting Safer Sex

Posted on Feb 14, 2008, Source: The Nation

"Safe Sex or No Sex" shirts are deemed inappropriate enough to merit suspension, but lying to teens in sex ed class is a billion-dollar industry.
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