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TAKE ACTION: TELL YOUR CONGRESSMAN: PROTECT CHILDREN, NOT GUNS
Society & Culture  (tags: ethics, government, gun control, violence )

Beverly
- 10 hours ago - secure.childrensdefense.org
Urge them to support legislation that requires common sense gun safety requirements.
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75 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police [Video]
Society & Culture  (tags: crime, culture, ethics, freedoms, government, law, rights, society, safety )

Kevin
- 1 day ago - disclose.tv
"Michael Allison faces 75 years in prison for five counts of recording law enforcement officials without their consent in Robinson, Illinois."
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Sovereign Nations Walk Out of Meeting With U.S. State Department Unanimously Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline
Society & Culture  (tags: First Nations, society, safety, environment, crime, culture, activists, family, freedoms, humans, politics, religion, rights, violence, world, sadness, government, corruption, abuse, news, murder, health, ethics, media, law, internet, usa, police, interes )

Roxie
- 1 day ago - earthfirstnews.wordpress.com
To sanctify their solidarity with The Lubicon Lake First Nation of Canada, who are the traditional stewards of the land that 70% of the tar sands oil sit on, along with tribes across Canada and The United States, Chief Arvol Lookinghorse has called for a
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Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials
Society & Culture  (tags: Keystone XL, Native Americans, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Associati, Rapid City, South Dakota, Treaty Rights, DOS, environment, culture )

Angelika
- 15 hours ago - indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
"On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the national interest and in fact would be detrimental not only to the collected sovereigns but all future
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Scorned Star Student Scores Scholarship!
Society & Culture  (tags: children, education, law, freedoms, media, rights, government, women, activists, corruption, culture, police, politics, safety, usa, ethics, child, americans, goodnews, humans, interesting )

Jane
- 10 hours ago - exm.nr
VICTORY!! Kiera Wilmot gets the last laugh, with a very healthy sense of humor! "Rocket Boy" Homer Hickham from NASA gifts his kindred spirit, Kiera! He got busted at high school too!! That was him in "October Sky."
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Leonard Pitts: On Death Penalty, Wrongly Accused Are Victims, Too
Society & Culture  (tags: republicans, politics, americans, death, culture, crime, ethics, family, freedoms, government, interesting, law, news, politics, rights, safety, sadness, violence )

Robert
- 5 hours ago - miamiherald.com
Since the death penalty was reinstated in the mid-70s, Florida has executed 75 people. But it has exonerated 24, many of whom spent more than a decade on death row. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Florida has the highest error rate in
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Haunting Relic of History, Slave Cabin Gets a Museum Home in Washington
Society & Culture  (tags: a Tuskegee Airmen fighter plane, African-American history, civil war, Edisto Island, Harriet Tubman’s shawl, history, Nat Turner’s Bible, Slave Cabin, Smithsonian )

Joseph
- 6 hours ago - worldwidehippies.com
Edisto Island is home to two of the nation's oldest slave cabins, dating to the 1850s -- vestiges of what was once an entire village for field workers at the Point of Pines Plantation. Black families lived in the wood-sided, two-room houses, without
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Canada: Aboriginal Leader Elijah Harper Dies
Society & Culture  (tags: anada, Cree, First Nations, Manitoba, Elijah Harper, NDP, MLA, MP, Meech Lake Accord, Newsmaker of the Year 1990, aboriginal leader )

Mike
- 1 day ago - winnipegfreepress.com
OTTAWA: Well-respected Manitoba aboriginal leader Elijah Harper has died. Harper was 64. He was the first Treaty Indian to be elected as a provincial politician. Photo: Tom Hanson,The Canadian Press
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Army Sergeant Assigned to Sex-Abuse Prevention Being Investigated for Pimping, Sexual Assault
Society & Culture  (tags: mailitary, rape, women, violence, usa, safety, politics, police, crime, corruption, abuse, troops, cover-up, lies, society )

Anna
- 17 hours ago - usnews.nbcnews.com
By Courtney Kube and Jeff Black, NBC News Just a week after an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in its sexual-assault prevention office was arrested and accused of sexual battery, a second U.S. service member assigned to a military sexual assault
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The New Science of Giving - Yahoo! Finance
Society & Culture  (tags: good news, philanthropy )

Ellen
- 4 hours ago - finance.yahoo.com
John & Laura Arnold are a different kind of philanthropist; it is fascinating to read how they made money and how they plans to donate most of their $4 BILLION. John Arnold said they began with the mission of "how can we do the most good."
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Stop The Maldives From Flogging Rape Survivors!
Society & Culture  (tags: petitions, women's rights )

Freya
- 2 hours ago - act.watchdog.net
Her stepfather raped her for years and murdered her baby when she became pregnant. So the Maldives government stepped in with a punishment -- for the 15-year-old rape survivor.
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Two Saudi Men Kill Wolf After 4-Hour Chase
Society & Culture  (tags: humans, ethics, murder, sports, abuse, death, environment, society, world )

Michael
- 19 minutes ago - emirates247.com
AS you see desert wolves are tiny, short-haired, and persecuted: Two Saudi men killed a wolf by sticks and rocks after chasing it in their car through rugged areas. (That's between Mecca and Medina). The 2were then given a hero's welcome in their village
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Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores
Society & Culture  (tags: activists, americans, culture, corruption, education, environment, ethics, family, freedoms, government, humans, law, society, violence, politics, abuse, crime, death )

Joshua
- 9 hours ago - alternet.org
The fight against plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing.Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward
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Care Packages?! To Help Senior Military Veterans?
Society & Culture  (tags: military, troops, war, government, ethics, healthcare, healthcare, culture, dishonesty, humans, society, usa, americans )

James
- 6 hours ago - vato21stcentury.blogspot.com
HEMET: Care packages to help senior veterans May 18, 2013 - While sending care packages to troops overseas is a time-honored tradition, Emeritus at Hemet will be delivering them to local senior veterans or their surviving spouses during Memorial Day
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Shelter to Veteran Women in Transition
Society & Culture  (tags: military, troops, war, government, ethics, economy, activists, culture, family, women, safety )

James
- 5 hours ago - vato21stcentury.blogspot.com
New York home gives shelter to veteran women in transition 05.18.2013 - When people hear the word "homeless shelter," it's easy to imagine a sterile building with long, narrow hallways and rooms filled with creaky, metal beds.
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