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  • Tenant-Led Movements Spark Housing Reform in Montana

    Bolts Oct 15, 2024

    Joey Morrison, a city commissioner in Bozeman, Montana, and also the city’s next mayor, has lived in 13 different places since moving to town 10 years ago. He knows what…

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  • Restoring Indigenous Sovereignty: Land Back Through Fire Management

    YES! Magazine Oct 14, 2024

    On his tribe’s land, enveloped by the state of Oregon, Jesse Jackson stood at the threshold between two ecosystems: On one side of him, an open canopy bathed grasses and…

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  • Blending LGBTQ+ Activism and Philanthropy for Meaningful Change

    Pride Source Oct 2, 2024

    For decades, Faye Schuett, alongside her late wife Linda Seaver Burnett, has championed LGBTQ+ rights, blending LGBTQ+ activism with philanthropy to create lasting change. Her deep commitment to equality has…

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  • Police Cover-Up Allegations Persist, Fueling the Fight for Justice in Kenosha

    The Marshall Project Sep 30, 2024

    Michael Bell Sr. has believed for years that Kenosha police officers victimized his family — first by killing his son in 2004 and then, he alleges, by covering up what…

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  • Community Solidarity as an Alternative to Police Involvement

    Prism Reports Sep 30, 2024

    In a lot of ways, an attack on Nabala Cafe always felt inevitable — and we didn’t even have a Palestinian flag hanging in the window when we first opened in July.…

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  • Ugandan Oil Pipeline Protests Face Police Crack Down

    The Real News Network Sep 27, 2024

    Police and soldiers from Uganda’s U.S.-trained army cracked down on Ugandan oil pipeline protests on Monday. The demonstrators advocated against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the globally condemned…

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  • Despite DNA Evidence of Innocence, Missouri Executes Marcellus Williams [Video]

    The Hill Sep 25, 2024

    Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection in Missouri yesterday after Gov. Mike Parson (R), the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all refused to save his life. Prosecutors and the victim’s…

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  • Incarcerated Hunger Strikers Push for Change

    Yale Daily News Sep 23, 2024

    Two incarcerated men have participated in a hunger strike for better conditions in Connecticut prisons for the past eight days. The incarcerated hunger strikers, Jacky Robinson Jr. and Cornel Myers…

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  • Nonprofit Nonpartisan Activities That Strengthen Democracy

    National Council for Nonprofits Sep 23, 2024

    In an election year, everyone has a role to play, including the nonprofits you support in your community. But you might wonder how these groups can participate in the democratic…

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  • Death Row Inmates Remain Despite Evidence of Innocence

    The Real News Network Sep 16, 2024

    The State of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Sept. 24 for a crime that even prosecutors now say he did not commit. On Sept. 12, a…

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  • ‘Woman Life Freedom’ Uprising: Two Years On, Iran’s Human Rights Violations Persist

    Amnesty International Sep 13, 2024

    People in Iran continue to endure the devastating consequences of the authorities’ brutal crackdown on the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising amid systematic impunity for crimes under international law, Amnesty International…

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    Philanthropist Laura Arnold on What It Takes to Reduce Polarization and Partisanship

    Chronicle of Philanthropy Sep 6, 2024

    As the country barrels through a bitter election season, a major philanthropist working toward bipartisan solutions says division in America is not as bad as it might seem. “Despite the…

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