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United Nations Crowdsources the Future of Youth AIDS Prevention – Health – GOOD
Three thousand people between the ages of 15 and 24 are infected with HIV every day. How can AIDS prevention efforts reach people in this group? The United Nations is testing out a new strategy: Ask them.
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Marsha Coleman-Adebayo: EPA Whistleblower Tells Her Story | The Root
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NYPD Scandals Keep Rolling In – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic
Over the long term, I hope we revisit how we’ve decided to police our communities. In short term, I have son to raise. There are numerous forces I seek to safeguard him against. The police are among them.
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Loudoun County GOP Head Resigns Over Obama Zombie Image | The Root
The image of Obama…features a large, bloody gunshot wound above his right eye …
We don’t know why the GOP is feigning surprise that this photo was produced and circulated. This is what happens when you cultivate relationships with zealots in order to win elections.
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Marriage Hopes Dashed for Gay Couples, but Not Kim Kardashian
The Mills family blasted the National Organization for Marriage for remaining silent about the marriage debacle of reality star Kim Kardashian and NBA player Chris Humphries. Kardashian filed for divorce on Monday, after only 72 days of marriage. The “marriage preservation” organization has failed to issue a statement about the spectacle/sham, although the organization is usually very loud when lambasting gay couples who are actually in loving, committed and long-term relationships and want to legally marry.
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New Orleans Bridge Shooting: Sentencing | The Root
Federal prosecutors are seeking leniency for the former police lieutenant who is scheduled to be sentenced today for his role in a plot to cover up the deadly police shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina…
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University To Staff: Swear You’re Not Gay Or You’re Fired | TPMMuckraker
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Exclusive: Is Crisis Our Opportunity To Acknowledge Interdependence? – Women’s Media Center blog
In a recent New York Times column, Thomas Friedman proposed that we are either facing “The Great Disruption,” as coined of by Australian environmentalist Paul Gilding, or the “The Big Shift,” as conceived of by businessmen John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. The former focuses on major upheaval and the latter major opportunity. I’d like to propose a third option: The Great Liberation.
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Daily Kos: New poll: The more Americans hear about Occupy Wall Street, the more they agree with it
Even as the percentage of Americans taking sides on the movement increased from 46 percent to 55 percent, the percentage of Americans who said they disagreed with Occupy Wall Street remained unchanged at 19 percent.
In other words, according to this poll, virtually all Americans who developed an opinion about Occupy Wall Street during the final three weeks of October came to agree with it.
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Daily Kos: John Boehner on Grover Norquist: He’s just some ‘random person’
Just some random person. Some guy no one has really heard of that even Republicans playing at being independent are afraid to cross.
Some random person who has got 236 Republican representatives and 41 Republican senators [pdf] to pledge allegiance to him and put that allegiance before doing what’s good for the country. …
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Daily Kos: Second sexual harassment claim against Herman Cain cost $45,000
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Daily Kos: Herman Cain blames Perry campaign for sexual harassment allegations
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Ron Paul suggests another campaign promoted Cain scandal – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room
…suggested that another GOP presidential campaign might be responsible for the allegations of past sexual harassment lawsuits currently gripping the campaign of rival Herman Cain.
“Conceivably it could be another campaign has done this for all we know right now,” Paul told Fox News.
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Cain misses applause in Northern Virginia speech – Alexander Burns – POLITICO.com
Herman Cain told an audience in Virginia today that there are hostile forces working to “destroy” his campaign and subvert the will of the people.
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Daily Kos: Herman Cain might want accuser to stay anonymous after all
…some of Cain’s defenders, like Sen. Rand Paul, have said that it’s oh-so-unfair for Cain to have defend himself against anonymous accusations. (Of course, the accusers are not anonymous to Cain. And if Cain has trouble keeping track of all the “anonymous” women who’ve accused him of sexual harassment over the years, his problems are far from over.)
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Occupy Oakland protestors shut city’s port – Telegraph
Acting Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said a group of 60 to 70 people he described as anarchists were responsible for the damage while the bulk of the protesters, a crowd he estimated at 4,500 people, had remained peaceful.
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Daily Kos: CONFIRMED: #OWS Surrounded Goldman Sachs HQ Chanting “Arrest George Bush” w/ GW Inside
A producer for Keith Olbermann’s show was on scene, and was also able to confirm that our nation’s 43rd president was indeed meeting with Goldman Sachs executives at its headquarters for a “tribute” event. Did you catch that? A tribute.
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‘In God We Trust’: House reaffirms national motto — yet again – The Washington Post
Last year, when Democrats controlled the House, they passed more than 250 commemorative resolutions, honoring everything from motherhood to motor homes.
When Republicans took over, they promised that would change. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) set out what aides called “the Cantor Rule.”
“Each day, we will hold ourselves accountable by asking the following questions: Are our efforts addressing job creation and the economy; are they cutting spending; and are they shrinking the size of the federal government while protecting and expanding individual liberty?” Cantor said at the beginning of this term. “If not, why are we doing it?”
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…the thing that’s missing from the House GOP’s subpoena request is any interest in what happened during the Bush administration even though the Solyndra loan process begun under Bush. That’s because this is nothing more than a fishing expedition motivated by partisan politics.
Remember, Solyndra was championed by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican governor of California, and House Republicans have repeatedly defended seeking support for exactly the same sorts loans to the same sorts of companies in their districts. (Among the Republicans: the two leaders of the panel seeking the subpoenas.)
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How Occupy Oakland Shut Down Port – The Bay Citizen
Port officials closed the facility in the late afternoon, after thousands of protesters walked and bicycled one mile from City Hall to the front gates. With police largely absent, the marchers surged into the port itself, merrily scrambling over cargo containers and picnicking on the wharf.
The largely peaceful day ended in confrontations between protesters and police, with officers firing tear gas and making dozens of arrests downtown after midnight.
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Occupy Protest Echoes Oakland’s Radical Past – The Bay Citizen
The 1946 General Strike was a watershed event: it brought Oakland commerce to a standstill for 54 hours and helped usher in a new generation of progressive politicians in the city (at least temporarily.) It also contributed to Congress’ decision in 1947 to pass the Taft-Hartley Act, which forbade unions from stopping work in solidarity with a picket line.
Images from previous General Strikes in Oakland, in 1934 and 1946: …
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Local News | Students could save millions on open source texts | Seattle Times Newspaper
College students in Washington state will be the first beneficiaries of a state project to make inexpensive, open source textbooks available for the most popular college classes.
But the $1 million the state invested in creating educational materials for 42 classes will benefit more than just students in Washington. That money was matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The course materials will be available to any college that wants to use them around the world, as long as they promise to not charge students more than $30 to get printed copies of the materials. …
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Buzzblog: Stallman parody site catches Stallman’s attention
‘The Stallman Dialogues’ springs from the ‘How to Hire Richard Stallman Manifesto’
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Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design | A List Apart
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