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Bill Quigley
Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later
27 Aug 2013
by Bill Quigley The “new” New Orleans that developers hoped to construct when 100,000 poor Black people were purged from the city is still a place of daunting poverty. “African American households in…
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Florida “Dream Defenders” Confront Racialized Justice System
06 Aug 2013
by Bill Quigley The young people occupying the Florida governor’s office seek more than just repeal of Stand Your Ground laws. They are crafting and proposing “a full legislative package to challenge…
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Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def Undergoes Brutal Guantanamo Style Force Feeding
10 Jul 2013
Actor, rapper & human rights activist Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def graphically demonstrates a little of what Uncle Sam's untried, un-accused, unsentenced but permanently incarcerated prisoners at…
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Obama Aims To Cut Social Security & Other Federal Benefits? And This is a Surprise?
10 Apr 2013
President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security by "chaining" it to the consumer price index will cost seniors a good 10% of monthly benefits a decade from now.
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MLK Injustice Index 2013: Racism, Materialism and Militarism in the US
23 Jan 2013
by Bill Quigley The three great evils cited by Dr. Martin Luther King have proliferated since his passing. Here’s an index of their influence, today.
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Hundreds of Thousands Homeless in Haiti Three Years After Earthquake
09 Jan 2013
by Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas The military occupation of Haiti could not possibly have been intended to help the Haitian people, whose material conditions have dramatically worsened under…
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Remember All the Children, Mr. President
18 Dec 2012
by Bill Quigley Including those whose lives were destroyed by United States policies, actions and inaction.
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Fifteen Issues this Election is Not About
24 Sep 2012
by Bill Quigley The ties that bind the two corporate parties and their presidential candidates are much stronger than any differences that separate them. That’s why a progressive platform could be…
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Katrina Pain Index 2012: 7 Years After
28 Aug 2012
by Bill Quigley and Davida Finger Racists and land-grabbers were celebrating the inundation of New Orleans even before the dead had been counted. A “new” New Orleans, they predicted, would rise out…
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Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal
16 May 2012
by Bill Quigley The United States is engaged in assassination and war crimes by drones in at least five nations around the globe, in violation of both U.S. and international law. It is a campaign of…