[Rob Shetterly, the artist who created the Americans Who Tell the Truth website (http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/), asked some of the people he painted to…
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In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is,…
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As everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature’s economy for…
[A version of this essay was delivered to the “Day of Action for Gaza” gathering in Austin, TX, on January 10, 2009.]…
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We have nothing against voting. We plan to vote in the upcoming election. Some of our best friends are voters. But…
When the bottom line is threatened, corporations typically show little concern for holding the line on political principles such as freedom of…
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