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Should Volunteers Fill Gaps for Prison Cuts?

Pat Hardy | Posted 08.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, AVP/California, California Budget Crisis, Volunteering, Gangs, Prison, Family, Living News
Pat Hardy

While the legislature slashes and burns program after program, our monthly workshops in 17 California prisons, are still on offer, deeply affecting the lives of prisoners and their families.

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After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Natalia Estemirova, Freedom of the Press, Human Rights, Crime, Robert Amsterdam, Violence, Russia, Vladimir Putin, United States, Justice, Europe, Barack Obama, Journalism, Dmitry Medvedev, Anna Politkovskaya, Rule of Law, Paul Klebnikov, World News
Robert Amsterdam

What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?

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Stop Tearing the Heart Out of L.A.

Kamala Lopez | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, Heart Program, Girls, Public Schools, Politics, Latino, Homeboy Industries, Crime, Kamala Lopez, Violence, Los Angeles, Social Programs, Hispanics, Barrio, Gangs, Latina, Politics News
Kamala Lopez

What is it about Rocio Martinez that makes kids on the edge of the abyss trust her? Well, for one thing, they know that Rosi, as they call her, can relate -- she used to be one of them.

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Holder Pushes Hate Crime Bill in Wake of Recent Wave of Hate

Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mexicans, Attacks, Hate Crimes, Congress, Nclr, Attorney General Eric Holder, Violence, Fbi, Immigrants, Southern Poverty Law Center, Eric Holder, Hate Crime Legislation, Dr. George Tiller, Eric Holder Attorney General, Hateful Rhetoric, Suffolk-County, u.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Talk Show Hosts, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, Elected Officials, Immigration Debate, Latinos, Shenandoah, Shooting, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hate Crimes Bill, Hispanic, Pennsylvania, New York, Murder, Luis Ramirez, Marcelo Lucero, National Council of La Raza, Ecuadorean, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.

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Ayatollah Khamenei: Saving Face is Never Worth Sacrificing Citizens

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran Election, Foreign Affairs, Iran Protests, Violence, World Peace, Iran, Iran Elections, Foreign Policy, Protesters, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

The Iranians are determined and tenacious and, like those before them, will bear the unwelcome and often deadly burden of change. But such change must occur without US involvement.

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Amat Escalante on Los Bastardos

Dan Persons | Posted 08.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Haneke, Home Invasion, Migrant Workers, Lou Dobbs, Violence, Drugs, Film, The Auteurs, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Amat Escalante, Interview, Cinema, Carlos Reygadas, Suburbia, Gore, Sex, Drama, Illegal Immigrants, Bruno Dumont, Horror Movies, Dario Argento, Podcast, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

Los Bastardos is a spare and brutal survey of the suburban wasteland.

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Jingoism Isn't Journalism: Why I Don't Trust CNN & Corporate Media to Cover Iran

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Indymedia, War, Violence, Iraq, Barack Obama, Cable Television, Iran, Brutality, Cnn, Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Paul Wolfowitz, Opposition Movement, Corporate Media, New Media, Invasion, Wolf Blitzer, Iranians, Satellite Television, Media News
Linda Milazzo

Old media, and specifically CNN, are learning the difficult lesson that with or without their vast resources and state of the art studios, the Iranians' stories will be told. And they'll be told to tens of millions more viewers than cable and satellite programs tend to reach.

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You Are Not Alone: Michael Jackson's Abusive Childhood and How to Heal If It's Yours

Janet Kinosian | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Childhood Trauma, Michael Jackson, King of Pop, Fear, Abuse, Control, Childhood Violence, Childhood Abuse, Childhood Exploitation, Living News
Janet Kinosian

Violence, control, fear and abuse thrive in silence. Merely aging doesn't make this pain diminish. In fact, it often gets stronger and louder.

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Medication Madness: How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Violence, Suicide, and Crime

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Violence, Psychiatry, Psychiatric Drugs, Medication Spellbinding, Involuntary Intoxication, Crime, Breggin, Living News
Dr. Peter Breggin

We need to be able to take complete responsibility for ourselves and to think through our problems with rational clarity. All psychiatric drugs impair those higher mental functions.

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NYC Anti-Gay Violence Rises: Report

Advocate | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Lgbt, Hate Crimes, Anti-Gay Violence, Anti-Gay Violence New York, Violence, Homophobia, New York Gay Pride, New York City Violence, Gay Pride, Hate Crime, New York, New York Lgbt, Lgbt Violence, New York News

Following a gay pride weekend marked by hate-motivated violence, advocates in New York City plan a press conference on Wednesday morning to ...

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The Media's Double Standard On Showing Neda's Death

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Pixelize, Pixelation, Msm, Body, Violence, Bodies, Media, Death, Mainstream Media, Editorial Standards, Plane, Television, Decency, Pixelization, Accident, Primetime, Chris Weigant, Body Parts, Blood, Prime Time, Neda, Train, Editors, News, Censorship, Media News
Chris Weigant

Either show us the Neda video uncensored, or don't show the poster. You can't really have this one both ways. The American public can either handle this image or we can't. Decide, and be consistent.

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Obama is Doing Right by the Iranian People, So Far

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Hugo Chavez, Britain, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, Sunni, Violence, Paramilitary, Hezbollah, Iran, Taliban, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Basij, George W. Bush, Arab, Revolution, United States, Protest, Tiananmen Square, Shiite, Occupied Territories, Mass Movement, Iraq, John McCain, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.

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The Iranian Crackdown: Who's Really Afraid of Whom?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Mir Hossein Mousavi, South Africa, Nonviolence, World, Repression, Middle East, Violence, Serbia, Nonviolent Action, People-Power, Iran, Hannah Arendt, Philippines, Iranian Election, World News, World News
Cynthia Boaz

Every time the regime represses, it further undermines its own power while simultaneously helping to recruit new members to the resistance.

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Iran's Fine Green Line Between a People's Right to Protest and Violence

Patt Cottingham | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Human Rights, Youth, Death, Green, Women's Rights, Freedom, Barack Hussein Obama, Citizen Reporters, Martin Luther King, Internet, Mir Hussein Moussavi, Tehran, Change, Father, Neda Agha Soltan, Sacrafice, Living News
Patt Cottingham

Although the US is a nation of immigrants that came here to escape repressive regimes or governments, as a society, we have largely forgotten what it is like to put our lives on the line to call forth change.

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Gary Teen Charged In Daylight Murder Of Gas Station Clerk (WATCH SURVEILLANCE VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Gun Violence, Violence, Gary Gas Station Murder, Gas Station Robbery, Stephen Michael Haines, Gurjeet Singh, Gurjeet Singh Murder, Chicago News

A Gary, Ind., teen was charged Monday with murdering a gas station attendant during a robbery attempt that was caught on camera last week. Stephen Mi...

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What If Released Inmates Stopped Committing Crimes?: Prison Reform That's Already Working -- Like Nothing You've Seen Before

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Reform, Non-Violent Crime, Criminal-Justice-System, Crime, Prison Violence, Recidivism, Prison System, Prison, Senator Webb, Senator Jim Webb, Violent Crime, Violence, Criminal Justice, Inmates, Jim Webb, Prison Inmates, Politics News
Pamela Gerloff

Let's start changing our lock-up facilities into places that actually cause inmates to change their behavior -- so that when they leave them they never go back.

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Fox Loudmouth Rhetoric Comes Home to Roost

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Rush Limbaugh, President Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Violence, New York Times, Fox News, Race, Republican Party, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Barack Obama, Republicans, James Von Brunn, Timothy McVeigh, Politics News
Richard M. Benjamin

Palpable demographic shifts have sparked considerable terror among a cadre of white Americans -- a fear that whites will be politically and culturally moribund in their "own" land.

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It's Time to "Profile" Potential Killers of Abortion Providers

Norm Stamper | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Abortion, Stalking, Tiller, Reproductive Rights, Violence, Attorney General Eric Holder, Bill O'Reilly, Racial Profiling, George Tiller, George Tiller Murder, Politics News
Norm Stamper

There's an axiom in police circles: if someone is determined to kill another there's not a whole lot you can do about it. Hogwash.

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The Real Price Of Gadget Addictions: Mining In Congo

treehugger.com | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Conflict, Trade, Violence, Environment, Iphone, Illicit Conflict, Congo, Minerals, Mineral Trade, Green News

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains mired in violence in significant part because of the...

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A Question for Dick Cheney: Should We Now Waterboard Tiller's Murderer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh, Ticking Time Bomb, Abortion Doctor, Cheney, Violence, Journalist, Late Term Abortion, Scott Roeder, Media, Journalism, Dick Cheney, Bush, George Tiller, Threat, Elf, Liz Cheney, Domestic Terrorism, Earth Liberation Front, Enhanced Interrogation, Abortion, Tiller, Abortion Clinic, Technique, Terrorism, Terrorist, Dr. Tiller, Murder, Chris Weigant, Waterboarding, Roeder, Domestic Terrorist, Torture, Mcveigh, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Roeder is claiming the now-infamous "ticking time bomb" scenario of what can only be termed domestic terrorism. Doesn't this mean that he should immediately be waterboarded?

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After Trauma, Iraqi Refugees Look for Healing

Catholic Relief Services | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Violence, Iraqi Refugees, Baghdad, Iraq, Lebanon, Kidnapping, Trauma, War, Jordan, Amman, Beirut, World News
Catholic Relief Services

For thousands of Iraqis, kidnapping is a nightmare they cannot wake up from. Between 2004 and 2007, hundreds of children and adults were abducted, tortured and often killed.

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My Abortion: It's Time to Tell

Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Violence Against Women, Roe v. Wade, Violence, Pregnancy, Pro-Life, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Dr. George Tiller, Living News
Tamar Abrams

When a killer pointed a gun at Dr. Tiller on Sunday, he forced me to tell my story. I urge all women across the nation to tell their stories.

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Political Violence in America

Mike Lux | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Tiller, Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Mike Lux

It is undeniably true that there is a dangerous and virulent streak of violence and fascism in American conservatism, now and throughout our country's history.

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The Politics of "Murder"

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Abortion, Dr. George Tiller, Antiabortion Activists, Pro-Life Movement, George Tiller Murder, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

This right-wing rhetorical strategy is used so often, people barely give it any notice anymore. Calling people "murderers" and "baby killers" has become a normal part of U.S. media.

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The Cancer of Religious Narcissism

Philip Slater | Posted 06.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Violence, Religion, Living News
Philip Slater

The bloody clashes between Sikh sects reminds us once again of the intimate bond between religion and violence. It seems to take only the tiniest doc...

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