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Emma Thompson's 'Journey' Exhibit Spotlights Sex Trafficking

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact

Read More: Trafficking, Emma Thompson, Sex Industry, Art Exhibit, Trafficked Women, Sex Trade, Violence, Sex Trafficking, New York City, Human Trafficking, Impact News

Two-time Academy Award-winning British actress Emma Thompson is focusing her attention on the issue of human trafficking of women and young girls by c...

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Richmond Gang Rape 911 Caller Speaks: Margarita Vargas Heard About Attack, Reported It

Posted 11.08.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Manuel Ortega, Violence Against Women, Richmond High School, Richmond High School Prom, 911 Call, Crime, Gang Rape, Alcohol, Violence, Bay Area Gang Rape, Richmond High School Gang Rape, Suspects, Margarita Vargas, Sexual Assault, Los Angeles News

A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-yea...

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Waging a War on Violence in Los Angeles

Brian Center | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact

Read More: La, Street Warfare, War, Pete Carroll, A Better LA, Violence, Los Angeles, Gangs, Peace, Impact News
Brian Center

I looked at the faces in the small room and heard the voices and realized that this is war. This is why people kill each other. It was fear.

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Liberia: The Real Danger is Not Spending Enough

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Rape, Massacre, Child Soldiers, Africom, Guinea, War, Ruthie Ackerman, Violence, Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Education, Military, Conflict, Colonel Moussa Dadis Camara, Job, Ceasefire, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

Conservatives will ask why during an economic recession should we spend even more money in Liberia. My answer: for the security of Liberia and the entire West African region.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Shrieks from the '80s: Ti West on The House of the Devil

Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Mary Woronov, Murder, Horror, Drama, Suspense, Death, Ti West, Indie, The House of the Devil, Fantasy, Off Beat, The House of the Devil Movie Review, Art, Tom Noonan, Larry Fessenden, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation

Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Earth, Justice, Repression, World, Murder, Horror, Emotion, Lars Von Trier, Sex, Drama, Suspense, Controversy, Death, Indie, Environment, Gore, Antichrist, Acting Legend, Fantasy, Off Beat, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Art, Love, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.

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Police: People Watched Gang Rape Of Teen And Did Nothing To Help

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Manuel Ortega, Violence Against Women, Richmond High School, Richmond High School Prom, Crime, Gang Rape, Alcohol, Violence, Bay Area Gang Rape, Richmond High School Gang Rape, Sexual Assault, Home News

RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming d...

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India's Invisible Minority

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Sachar Commission, Hindu, Islam, India, Eid Ul-Fitr, Pakistan, Secular, Violence, Muslims, Durga-Festival, Partition of India, Democracy, Discrimination, Hinduvta, World News
Parvez Ahmed

Muslims who make up over twenty percent of the population in Kolkata have become its invisible minority, increasingly squeezed out of the public square in Kolkata and beyond.

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Nicole Kidman: Hollywood Contributes To Violence Against Women

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Nicole Kidman Congress, Nicole Kidman, Entertainment News

WASHINGTON — Nicole Kidman conceded Wednesday that Hollywood has probably contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex o...

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Yes, Institutional Violence Does Exist and It Exacerbates Youth Violence

Tracy Siska | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Violence, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Crime, Youth Violence, Vice Lords, Illinois Charter Schools, Chicago Education Reform, Chicago School Reform, Collins High School, North Lawndale, Chicago Gang Violence, Chicago News
Tracy Siska

Who in their right mind thought it would be a good educational decision to move black kids from 95% black North Lawndale to Little Village High School in a 95% Latino community? Racial violence was predictable if not guaranteed.

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Ohio Bar Shootout (VIDEO): Fight Escalates Into Showdown With Five Gunmen

AP | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Bar Violence, Gun Violence, University of Toledo, Toledo Bar Brawl, Video, Gunmen, Ohio, Violence, Bar Shootout, Route 66 Kitchen, Toledo Bar Shootout Video, Home News

(AP) TOLEDO, Ohio -- A wild shootout involving at least five gunmen sent patrons fleeing from a northwestern Ohio bar near the University of Toledo c...

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Youth Violence in America: How Can We Stop It?

The Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.07.2009 | Impact

Read More: Violence, Youth Violence, Education, Arne Duncan, Chicago, Eric Holder, Impact News

Two members of President Obama's cabinet met with Chicago mayor Richard Daley and school officials today, as well as parents and students from the nei...

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Power With, Power Over

Robert Koehler | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Restorative Justice, Peace Circles, Power, Derrion Albert Murder, War, Chicago Public Schools, School Reform, Education Reform, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Derrion Albert's death is just another symptom of a city, a nation and a world at perpetual war with itself. It's merely one in a series of tragedies that we are numb to or never hear about.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: The War Won and Lost -- Florent-Emilio Siri on Intimate Enemies

Dan Persons | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Violence, Emotion, Afghanistan, Algiers, War, Battle of Algiers, Drama, Death, Controversy, Iraq, World, Benoit Magimel, Afghanistan War, France, Iraq War, Gore, Albert Dupontel, Explosions, Action-Adventure, Gritty, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Director Florent-Emilio Sari definitely has a knack for playing the audience. He makes the most of his Moroccan locations, finding an eerie beauty in the barren landscape.

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The Radical Philosopher: Reflections on Gandhi's 140th Birthday

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Consumerism, Nuclear Weapons, Global Economy, War, Violence, India, World News
Mira Kamdar

Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.

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Rockford Shooting Shows Need for Federal Police Standards

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Mark Barmore, Naacp, Rockford, Deadly Force, Politics News
Benjamin Todd Jealous

The brutal, public nature of Mark Anthony Barmore's killing has thrust the city of Rockford into the spotlight, and posed disturbing questions about accountability and the use of excessive force.

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TV: Sex, Guns, and Frito-Lays

Michelle Howard | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Sex, Violence, Drugs, Teen Sex, Tv, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, TV Advertising, Teenagers, Teenage Tv Consumption, Television, Unhealthy Lifestyle, Kids and Guns, Guns, Living News
Michelle Howard

I’m not going to tell you to kill your television. I’m a pacifist. But how about a little habit changing? Just push that little button on your remote that says “off.”

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Public Enemies and the Invention of Video

Paul Snyder | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Public Enemies, Depression, Interrogation, Michael Mann, Violence, Pretty Boy Floyd, Recession, Gangsters, Guns, Christian Bale, John Dillinger, Marion Cotillard, Melvin Purvis, Spectacle, Digital-Film, Baby Face Nelson, Myrna Loy, Johnny Depp, Anachronism, Torture, Independent Films, Entertainment News
Paul Snyder

For all of director Michael Mann's aesthetic sophistication, the film's spontaneity runs roughshod over a lot of true history.

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New Study Shows that Children Who Play Educational Video Games Wrongly Believe 'Education Leads to Success'

Ben Berkon | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Violence, Comedy, Video Games, Comedy News, Teachers, Third-Party Candidate, Starbucks, Ben Berkon, Education, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

"There was an astonishingly high percentage of misinformed children who are in for a real surprise," said STAThead executive Bill Myers.

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Talk Radio Inciting Violence? What Happened to Listener Discernment?

Michael D. Brown | Posted 09.22.2009 | Denver

Read More: Holland Cooke, Left Wing, David Sirota, Talk Radio, Violence, Right Wing, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Chris Matthews, Dog Whistles, Denver News
Michael D. Brown

We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.

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QODS DAY: Protesters Transform Jerusalem Day Into Iran Day

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Esfahan, Demonstrations, Shiraz, Iranian, Violence, Palestine, Iran, Quds Day, Mehdi Karroubi, Rallies, Jerusalem Day, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Qods Day, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Protests, Israel, Handala, Slideshow, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Today a long time tradition of the Islamic Republic of Iran was transformed into nationwide mass protests against the government.

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Nancy Pelosi Warns Of Violence Over Heated Rhetoric, Chokes Up (VIDEO)

Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tears Up, Pelosi Chokes Up, Pelosi Republicans Violence, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Violence, Pelosi Warns of Violence, Fear of Violence, Harvey Milk, Pelosi Harvey Milk, Politics News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's eyes watered Thursday as she called for the rhetorical heat to be turned down across the country, and warned that such wo...

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Hofstra Rape: Student Lied About Incident: District Attorney

AP | Posted 09.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Sexual Violence, Hofstra, Rape, Hofstra Rape Victim Lied, Crime, Violence, Hofstra University, Rondell Bedward, Dorm, Hofstra USA, Bronx, Jesus L. Ortiz, Hofstra Rape, University, Long Island, College, Stalin Felipe, Kevin R. Taveras, Hofstra Rape Victim, Hofstra Rape Case, Hofstra Incident, Hofstra Student Lied, Hostra Rape, Hofstra Rape Lied, Hoftra Rape, Hofstra Girl Lied, Rape Hofstra, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities in New York say the Hofstra University student who told police that she had been gang-raped by five men on campus ...

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The Curse of Domestic Violence: A Cycle of Abuse from Father to Son

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Economy, Economic Crisis, Violence, Drugs, Parenting, Dysfunctional Family, Murder, Pediatricians, Child Abuse, Health, Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Family, Santa Fe, Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

How can boys raised in an abusive environment learn any differently? It is nice to say we have to show them or teach them by example, but what example can we use?

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Hofstra Rape: Woman Gang Raped In Hofstra University Dorm: Police

AP | Posted 09.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Sexual Violence, Hofstra, Rape, Crime, Violence, Hofstra University, Rondell Bedward, Dorm, Hofstra USA, Bronx, Jesus L. Ortiz, Hofstra Rape, University, Long Island, College, Stalin Felipe, Kevin R. Taveras, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)-- Police in New York say an 18-year-old Hofstra University student trying to retrieve a cell phone was lured into a dormitory men...

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