A few links by category (categories greatly overlap, so scan them all):
Human Rights
- New Violence Against Women Act Includes Historic Protections for Native American and LGBT Survivors (DemocracyNow!)
- Vandana Shiva on Int’l Women’s Day: “Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women” (DemocracyNow!)
- Help Prevent Slavery before It Starts (Pure Charity)
Racism
- The Abolitionists (PBS)
- Presumed Incompetent: Breaking the Silence of Racism in Academia (Khanh Ho, Huffington Post)
Economy (Finance & Business)
- Why America’s middle class is losing ground (Tami Luhby, Money)
- Wealth Inequality in America (YouTube)
- It’s the Inequality, Stupid (Dave Gilson)
- Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization? (Noam Chomsky, Truthout)
- Amazon’s Thuggish Security Force in Germany Shows How Corporations Get Their Way (Yves Smith, Truthout)
Culture
- Real Harlem Shake (Melissa Harris-Perry)
- 10 years later, Dixie Chicks right all along (LZ Granderson, CNN)
Media
Activism
- We are Those Two Afghan Children (Journey to Smile)
- Days Four and Five Photo Report: Port Charlotte to Venice (CIW)
Poverty + Development
Environment
- Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change (TED)
- Look Carefully at Those Seeds (Margaret Roach, NY Times)
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