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By Mel White
By Jennifer Baumgardner
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Rob Bixby (CC-BY)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Public officials are very selective about when violence and death matter. Massacres and terrorist incidents cannot be ignored, but the day-to-day toll from gun violence is often swept aside. Politicians who tout themselves as advocates of law and order don’t want to be unmasked as caring even more about their ratings from gun lobbyists.
Posted on May 12, 2013
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AP/Tony Dejak
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The three women who were kidnapped and held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade were raped, beaten mercilessly while pregnant, kept in ropes and chains and forced to crawl around on their hands and knees naked in the backyard by their captors, according to reports.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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“Four people hurt in Albuquerque church stabbing,” reads the L.A. Times headline. “Hurt” being the key word there. According to police and in the words of the church’s pastor, “It sounds like everybody is going to be OK.”
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
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CMYKane (CC BY 2.0)
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By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Picture this. A man bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. The invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane, and he’s doing what so many men find exhilarating: disciplining his girlfriend.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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wikipedia.org
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Since President Obama put reducing gun violence high on his list of action items for his second term, members of Congress are obliged to make their own stances known on the contentious issue of gun control.
Posted on Feb 3, 2013
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Dec 30, 2012
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Dec 27, 2012
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 26, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 25, 2012
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Dec 25, 2012
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Osama Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Abu Mahjoob Creative Productions —
Posted on Dec 23, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Dec 20, 2012
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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Mickey van der Stap (CC BY 2.0)
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By Angelo Letizia, Figure/Ground Communication —
“Public institutions are being attacked because they are public, offer spaces for producing critical thought, emphasize human needs over economic needs, and because they are one of the few vital institutions left that can function as democratic public spheres,” the critic and Truthout contributor said in a recent interview.
Posted on Dec 2, 2012
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For roughly two hours, acclaimed filmmakers Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz give us a deep and intimate glimpse into the persistent epidemics of violence in America’s inner city black communities.
Posted on Sep 7, 2012
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Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama —
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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kevin dooley (CC BY 2.0)
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Warlike values and the social mind-set they legitimize have become the primary currency of our market-driven culture, which takes as its model a Darwinian shark tank in which only the strong survive.
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LaDawna's pics (CC-BY)
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
The killing of a young African-American boy, Trayvon Martin, by an overzealous white Hispanic security guard who appears to have capitulated to the dominant post-racial presumption that equates the culture of criminality with the culture of blackness, has devolved into a spectacle.
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Tom Janssen, The Netherlands —
Posted on Apr 3, 2012
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Kent-Chen (CC-BY)
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A thoughtful, personal essay by photographer Hank Willis Thomas makes the case that the cultures of America’s inner-city black communities, once dignified by the gains of the civil rights movement, have been steadily degraded over the last three decades by corporate capitalism.
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Jessierocks (CC-BY)
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By Henry Giroux, Truthout —
Young people the world over demonstrating against economic injustice are met with state-sanctioned violence and insults in the mainstream media, rather than informed dialogue, critical engagement and reformed policies.
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AP / Muzaffar Salman
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The Arab League and the rest of the international community seem at a loss to prevent rising tension and violence in Syria from driving the country into full-blown civil war.
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“Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal” starts with the earliest post office massacre in 1986 in exploring how economic factors might play a role in the epidemic of shootings.
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David Kennedy, author of “Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America,” spent more than 10 years in the worst corners of the worst cities in the country before going to Baltimore.
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In what could turn out to be a recruiting coup for the Occupy movement, a clip showing a UC Davis campus police officer blithely pepper-spraying a group of seated students is stirring outrage from all corners of the Web. (more)
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Flickr / Neon Tommy (CC-BY-SA)
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The ACLU has demanded the resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca after the civil rights organization issued a report that he had willfully ignored a growing culture of violence and abuse by jail deputies against inmates. (more)
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Flickr / erin m
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Protesters claim 80 arrests were made Saturday as the occupation of Wall Street by scores of mostly young demonstrators turned violent, with police corralling, wrestling and appearing to pepper-spray participants. (more)
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AP / Paul Sakuma
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By Robert Scheer — Scalia’s opinion is actually quite thrilling in enunciating an extremely broad definition of the free speech rights of minors. But it is simply bizarre in dismissing the claimed harmful effects of violent depictions while still insisting on the strictest puritanical view of the dangers of sexual imagery.
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AP / Sunday Alamba
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Nigeria’s most credible election in decades has come to a close, but the legitimacy of the process has failed to stem the violence. A local human rights group believes more than 500 people have been killed in postelection fighting.
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bbc.co.uk
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As the results from Nigeria’s presidential election last weekend rolled in and it became clear that the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan had won again, his most pressing task was to try to contain outbreaks of violence in the Muslim north part of his country.
Posted on Apr 18, 2011
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The U.S. and China are bickering again over human rights after the U.S. condemned the arrest of Chinese dissidents. Beijing dismissed Washington’s latest criticism and said the U.S. is beset by violence, racism and torture and thus has no authority to condemn the actions of other governments. Above, Ai Weiwei, a jailed activist.
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guardian.co.uk
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More than 100 people have been found dead in western parts of the Ivory Coast, victims of what investigators believe are ethnically motivated massacres. U.N. officials say the killings may have been carried out by Liberian mercenaries.
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Mar 14, 2011
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Eighteen years ago, the late Betty Friedan called her friend Ann Reiss Lane, a prominent Los Angeles civic activist. She was angry about the gun industry’s latest outrage—high-fashion ads marketing guns with grips made for a woman’s hand.
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Flickr / Eve Chan (CC-BY-ND)
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David Sirota calls this Steve Almond essay the best take he’s seen on the Giffords shooting and it’s hard to disagree. “What happens when a large and well-armed portion of our citizenry can no longer apologize?” Almond asks. “When humility becomes another form of humiliation? Their heroes exhort them: Never retreat. Reload.”
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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Chris Hedges — Many of us will, after our rally in Lafayette Park, attempt to chain ourselves to the fence outside the White House. It is a pretty good bet we will all spend a night in jail. Hope, from now on, will look like this.
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