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Social Justice Group Focusing on Women and Trans Issues Brings Political Action to the Everglades; Camp Fundraising Deadline Tuesday

Terra Sullivan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:50:03 +0000

For most involved in modern social justice movements, it is easy to pinpoint and identify the major, dominant oppressors under a capitalist patriarchal model that work to uphold all that that model stands for while denying relevance to everything that it does not (i.e. nature, women’s bodies, people of color, the trans community). But what’s [...]

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Owlcatraz: Students Resist FAU Selling Out to Private Prison

Stephanie McMillan — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:12:24 +0000

GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) is a private firm that runs more than a hundred for-profit prisons and youth and immigrant detention facilities, in which captives are beaten and raped. One judge called one of their juvenile jails in Mississippi “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions.” The GEO Group runs three facilities in [...]

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Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, But Don’t Stop There

Stephanie McMillan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:31:43 +0000

Our worst nightmares reverberate with the prediction of respected scientist James Hansen: if we don’t stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, then it’s “game over” for stabilizing the climate. With final US governmental approval (or not) to complete the pipeline looming, struggle over it is intensifying. In late January, representatives from more than 25 First Nations [...]

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Capitalist Food Production: A Leading Cause of Hunger, Illness, Ecocide, Exploitation, and Imperialist Domination

Stephanie McMillan — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:20:29 +0000

Capitalism is a dysfunctional economic system that benefits a few while exploiting and neglecting the majority. But it’s not only that. It’s also a social relationship of domination, where a small class of capitalists exerts power over the whole society through the private ownership of the means of production. Under capitalism, the purpose of all commodity production (including food) is [...]

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Exploitation in Fashion

Salty Eggs Staff — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:23:46 +0000

Grab a shirt from your closet. Look at the tag inside the collar, and you’ll see where it was produced, listed right next to the size and material composition. Chances are that it was sewn in some other country that you’ve never been to, by someone who lives on the edge of desperation. The current configuration of the garment [...]

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RIP Jenni Rivera: Not Just a Latin Music Icon, But a Progressive Ally, Too

Arielle Castillo — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:38:39 +0000

Sunday marked a devastating loss for the Latin music community with the death of Jenni Rivera, a Long Beach, California-based artist dubbed the “queen of grupero.” After a concert in Monterrey, Mexico, around 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, Rivera, age 43, boarded a private Learjet 25 with her publicist, stylist, lawyer, and make-up artist. All were [...]

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Will the Real Eco-Terrorists Please Stand Up?

Stephanie McMillan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:16:47 +0000

After being on the run for years, facing charges of conspiracy and multiple acts of arson, Rebecca Rubin turned herself in to U.S. law enforcement on the morning of Nov. 29. She is accused of belonging to Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front for several years starting in the mid-1990s. The FBI labeled both ELF and ALF “terrorist [...]

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The Class Struggle of Science

Stephanie McMillan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:56:41 +0000

Economic systems are in a dialectical (mutually interdependent and contradictory) relationship with the political structure and prevailing ideas of each society as a whole, with the economy being the dominant or determining aspect. This is not to say that influence doesn’t go the other way, but economy has a stranglehold on everything else, shaping its nature (both bending [...]

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Theory: Everybody Has One

Stephanie McMillan — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:37:35 +0000

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we each live our lives according to our own personal internalized philosophical theory — a more or less contradictory jumble of assumptions, beliefs, intentions, and hypotheses about the nature of the universe and our place in it. Each of us has ideas about the nature of existence, motion, [...]

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Q&A: Stephanie McMillan Talks Occupy, the Environment in Her Latest “The Beginning of the American Fall”

Erica K. Landau — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:51:50 +0000

Don’t call Stephanie McMillan a Democrat. Don’t call her a liberal, either. The winner of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights Journalism Award — and native South Floridian; she penned her first lefty piece, a review of Jonathan Schell’s Fate of the Earth, as a student at the frou frou Fort Lauderdale high school [...]

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