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TFW Editorial Collective and Guest Responses to the 2011 WAD Challenge
What will need to happen to achieve the goal of eliminating new HIV infections, AIDS related deaths, and discrimination? What can we do, collectively, to...
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Mass Evictions at “Occupy” Camps around the Country
From Denver, Oakland, to New York City, local police have stormed Occupy encampments carrying out eviction orders and arresting peaceful protesters. Given the number of...
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From Washington Heights to Wall Street: End to End for the 99%
Earlier this week, throngs of Latinos and blacks gathered at 181st and St. Nicholas Avenue in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights in New...
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Beating Back the Right
This has been a banner week for progressives with victories in several states beating back the nation-wide Republican campaign against immigration, collective bargaining, as well...
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Europe Continues to Convulse as Berlusconi Resigns
Silvio Berlusconi stepped down earlier this week as Prime Minister of Italy as the European region continues to roil with economic and political instability....
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Most Americans Think Income Inequality Is A Big Problem: Poll
The wealth gap may pose a real risk to the financial health of the country. Analysts at the International Monetary Fund have warned that the...
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US cuts off Unesco funding after Palestinian vote
On Monday, the US halted funding for UNESCO after the body voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians. While symbolic, the move clearly angered...
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Libyan Women and the Revolution
Some distributed media to raise awareness of Gaddafi’s atrocities and underminine the loyalty of his troops in Tripoli. Some smuggled weapons, cared for and fed...
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On the Death of Osama bin Laden
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman My son asked me last night if I were “happy” that Osama bin Laden had been killed. He expressed his own sense...
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Prescription for Relief
Sex-Crimes-Exhibition-Press-Image-Jan-2011 By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A few weeks ago I attended an exhibit at the Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn, called “Sex Crimes against...
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Where Are the Radicals?: Islam(ophobia) and Black Urban Politics
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Who is it that said the more things change, the more they stay the same? If the last decade is any harbinger...
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Assault
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman A new billboard went up in SoHo last week, placed at a busy intersection on Sixth Avenue a few feet...
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Women, Welfare Reform and the Progressive Agenda
By Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman After more than a year or so of procrastinating I finally watched Lee Daniels’s critically and commercially successful film “Precious: Based on...