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When Walmart Comes to Midtown: “Walmart doesn’t destroy small businesses, capitalism does.”

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The title quote is from an article by Pablo Babanegra of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity. It sums up problems within local movements fighting the entrance of Walmart into their communities, and focuses on the construction of the Walmart Super Center in Midtown Miami (which has met intense opposition from many Miami residents). The article is [...]

If Obama Doesn’t Do Some Major Problem-Solving, Prepare for Reactionary Republican Leadership in 2016

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You certainly know this by now  — OK, for fuck’s sake, you SHOULD know this by now — but Pres. Barack Obama has won election to a second term in office. Partisan politics aside, there is a strong argument to be made that Obama is objectively the better choice for America. (I am saying this [...]

The Wynwood Big Buy: How a Few Wealthy Developers Misappropriated Street Art to Jump Start Gentrification

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Graffiti, in one form or another, has been a form of human expression since the birth of our species. Its modern incarnation developed during the late 1960s in the Northeastern United States, primarily in Philadelphia and New York. A few aspects differentiated it from simply writing political slogans or obscenities in public spaces and on [...]

American Life League Hosts Fetus-Themed Pumpkin Carving Contest, Holy Sh*t

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Just in time for Halloween, the American Life League has announced the fetus-themed, 2012 national “Pro-Life Pumpkin Carving Contest.” This competition — which is totally real, HOLY SHIT — doesn’t just raise awareness for lifers’ cause. Rather, it’s meant to showcase unborn baby-shaped, anti-abortion squash sculpture. Apparently, this genre of art has existed for some [...]

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Here are Five Charity Alternatives to Susan G. Komen for the Cure

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Today marks the beginning of the annual National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a fact marked by the sudden influx of special pink merchandise at every price point hitting the store shelves. Credit for that ubiquitous pink ribbon symbol largely goes to Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the famous national nonprofit who handed out the [...]

Report From the Republican National Convention: Is the GOP Committing Suicide?

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Seventy-two hours before the Republican National Convention kicked off at the Tampa Bay Times Arena, I decided that I had to be there. Not because I wanted to go party for Mitt Romney, of course, but because it appeared that a movement of people, many anti-Republican, and others just anti-Romney, would be prepared to make [...]

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan of “Democracy Now!” Talk New Book “The Silenced Majority” at Books & Books Saturday

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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan don’t pull any punches. So don’t expect any glossed-over facts about the American political machine in their new book The Silenced Majority. The sequel to their New York Times bestselling book Breaking the Sound Barrier, based on their Kings Features Syndicate column of the same name, Goodman (host of the grassroots public television and radio program [...]

Report From the Republican National Convention: Has Gallagher Lost It, or Just Lost It All?

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Across the street from a main checkpoint outside the Republican National Convention yesterday, I stood listening to an anonymous member of the Oath Keepers, a conspiracy-minded organization of former and current military and law-enforcement officers who have vowed to disobey any unconstitutional orders given to them. The man called out to the “brothers” in sheriff’s [...]

California Bill Will Deem Reparative Therapy Abuse, But What About Raising Children in Certain Faiths?

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California’s Senate Bill 1172 shall soon be on its way to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown, where it will almost certainly become law. The bill, the first of its kind in the nation, bans the administering of “reparative therapy” to minors. That is, it prohibits parents from hiring psychiatrists, psychologists, or counselors to de-gay [...]