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Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested

By Amy Goodman, Truthdig. September 5, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy.

An Open Letter to Gov. Sarah Palin on Women's Rights

By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women. September 4, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The freedom of all women relies on the legal principles that guarantee the right to choose.

Plan B Damned: My Quest for Emergency Contraception

By Nikol Hasler, RH Reality Check. August 29, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Unless you have Plan B in your medicine cabinet, it's highly unlikely you'll get your hands on a morning-after pill the morning after.

Blocking a Gazan's Path to an Education

By Fidaa Abed, The San Diego Union-Tribune. August 19, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Hundreds of Palestinian students with dreams of improving their lives are stagnating intellectually in Gaza.

At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office

By Emily Feder, AlterNet. August 18, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: I was recently stopped by Homeland Security as I was returning from a trip to Syria. What I saw in the hours that followed shocked and disturbed me.

Can Iraq Vets Help Heal the Wounds of War?

By Karin Zeitvogel, Huffington Post. August 12, 2008.
War on Iraq: In impoverished refugee outposts, veterans and victims of the Iraq war find unlikely common ground.

On Sports and Civil Rights: An Olympic Moment Remembered

By Jim Munn, AlterNet. August 9, 2008.
Forty years have passed since Tommie Smith and John Carlos' medal stand demonstration drew attention to the state of civil rights in America.

Who Marriage Is For: A Tale of Two Weddings

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. August 7, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Gay marriage is drastically changing the institution of marriage. And that's a very, very good thing.

Is Marriage Worth Fighting For?

By Courtney E. Martin, The American Prospect. July 31, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Recent steps legalizing gay marriage have made me reevaluate my aversion to the institution. But I still have my doubts.

Arizona Activists Outline Evidence of 2006 Electronic Vote Theft

By Bill Risner, Election Defense Alliance. July 22, 2008.
Democracy and Elections: The attorney who won the country's first case declaring electronic voting records are public now summarizes the case for vote count fraud.

What Does Silence Really Sound Like?

By Marisa Taylor, Ode. July 19, 2008.
Sitting in an anechoic (soundless) chamber, I realized silence isn't golden; it's creepy.

The Translator's Perspective: an Inside Account of the Biggest ICE Raid in History

By Erik Camayd-Freixas, New America Media. July 14, 2008.
Rights and Liberties: An interpreter struggles with his conscience after a massive immigration raid in Iowa.

Is It Getting Easier to Raise a Biracial Child?

By Heidi Schnakenberg, AlterNet. July 11, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Our "interracial couple" status was never a huge issue. Then, we became pregnant.

Think '70s Feminists Are Out of Touch? Not So Fast.

By Heidi Schnakenberg, AlterNet. July 11, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: A lesson from second-wave feminism: Women will continue to be oppressed unless they stop prioritizing other causes over their own.

Sleeping Around Craigslist

By Anna Reed, Lily Penza, East Bay Express. July 9, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Two middle-aged women discover that casual sex can be anything but casual.

Surviving a Weekend with America's Premiere Pro-White Activist Group

By Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet. July 4, 2008.
Immigration: Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.

There's Something Missing from Mommy Lit

By Deesha Philyaw, Bitch Magazine. June 28, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Bookstores are brimming with motherhood memoirs. But why are so few of them penned by women of color?

A Grandfather Looks Back on 40 Years of Happy Pot Smoking

By George Rohrbacher, NORML. June 15, 2008.
DrugReporter: A Father's Day message to young pot smokers: "My mind still finds cannabis fun and enlightening after decades of inter-cranial adventures."

What Men Really Want for Father's Day

By Roberto Vargas, AlterNet. June 14, 2008.
Hint: It's not another tie.

Alice and Rebecca Walker Clash: Do Feminist Mothers Have to Choose Between Dreams and Diapers?

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. June 13, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Rebecca Walker is a well-known third-wave feminist and daughter of author Alice Walker. So why is she adopting anti-feminist talking points?

The Indestructible Male Libido

By Paul Festa, Nerve.com. June 3, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Despite the fear of imminent sexual decay, getting older has its benefits.

"I Was Shot by Soldiers Bought and Paid for by Chevron"

By Larry Bowoto, AlterNet. May 29, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Chevron must admit it has used and paid Nigerian police and military to act as company thugs to harm and scare the local population.

Sex Ed in the Bible Belt

By Margaret McKeehan, Open Magazine. May 20, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: I signed a paper promising no sex until marriage. The prize for my upstanding moral rectitude? A free chicken sandwich.

America's Frightening Alzheimer's Epidemic

By Rebecca Hyman, AlterNet. May 16, 2008.
Health and Wellness: By 2030, one in four adults over 65 will have Alzheimer's. This unforgiving brain damage can cripple patients, families and the economy.

A Jew's Eye View of Iran

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: The condition of the Jews in Iran is a matter of political significance.

My Strange Relationship With Sex

By Raj Bandyopadhyay, Open Magazine. May 12, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: As an Indian studying in the U.S., I have been subjected to the sexual hang-ups of two cultures. This is not a good recipe for getting laid.

Today, Honor Mothers World-Wide

By MADRE, AlterNet. May 11, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Mothers across the globe are working for progressive change. MADRE, an international women's rights organizations, honors them this Mother's Day.

Sex Work vs. Trafficking: Understanding the Difference

By Melissa Ditmore, RH Reality Check. May 10, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: There are big differences between women trafficked into sexual slavery and voluntary sex workers. So why are we treating them the same?

Becoming a Smug Married

The Frisky. May 7, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: I used to hate boring, smug married people -- until I began to suspect that I had turned into one of them.

Real Furniture Isn't for People with College Loans

By Meg Favreau, The Smart Set. May 3, 2008.
It's people like me buying IKEA furniture that put my father's mill out of business.

Without Ceremony: How I've Managed to Avoid Getting Married for Forty Years

By Lisa Gabriele, Nerve.com. May 1, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: For an institution associated with a 50 percent failure rate and bad sex, marriage still has surprisingly many takers -- not me.

Misdiagnosis: Reproductive Health and Our Environment

By Mariana Ruiz Firmat, make/shift. April 28, 2008.
Environment: If we want to foster healthy communities, we need to make connections between reproductive health, environmental toxins, and the food we eat.

Taking It Like a Man

By Anonymous, AlterNet. April 24, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Throwing caution and societal expectations to the wind, I let my girlfriend screw me for a change.

Protecting the Women of the Congo

By Stephen Lewis, The Nation. April 24, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Women in the Congo are suffering such horrific violence that "vaginal destruction" is now a local medical term. Where is the UN?

Diane Sawyer Doesn't Like What I Do

debauchette. April 21, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: My interview on ABC made one thing clear: In our society sex workers are still presented as tragic, lost, Dickensian characters.

An Antiwar Soldier Gets Promoted to Sergeant: Was it Willful Ignorance?

By Aaron Glantz, IPS News. April 19, 2008.
A Soldier Speaks: Ronn Cantu has been one of the loudest voices of dissent inside the U.S. Army.

This is What a Union Victory Looks Like

By Raquel Mack, AlterNet. April 18, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: "I know first hand that the road to justice is long."

Soldiers of the 'War on Terror' Speak Out

By Cynthia Orange, Michael Orange, AlterNet. April 18, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: If all of America were to hear these voices, the occupation of Iraq would already be over.

Twelve Years Ago My Children Were Killed in Lebanon

By Haidar Bitar, AlterNet. April 18, 2008.
My country, the United States, has never called for justice or pressed for an official inquiry into the massacre at Qana.

In Med Schools, the Abortion Curriculum Has Left the Classroom

By Louisa Pyle, RH Reality Check. April 15, 2008.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: In a sane world, abortion would be included in medical school curriculum where appropriate, just like any other common, safe procedure.

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