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In the wake of the successful pushback against the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood, the Obama administration should listen to the majority of Americans: The United States, including Catholics, is strongly pro-choice.
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Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
In an extended interview, co-authors Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith discuss the life of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the chilling story behind his murder by the Bolivian military. In their book, "Who Killed Che?" Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing. [includes rush transcript]
Watch a 2011 interview with Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is on trial in Spain after right-wing groups objected to his investigation of atrocities committed by supporters of the dictator Francisco Franco. Garzón is known for seeking to indict members of the Bush administration for their role in torturing prisoners.
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Filmmaker Chris Eyre and Marquetta Sheilds, Daughter of Leonard Peltier: A Discussion of Eyre’s Newest Film, "Skins," Life On the Pine Ridge Reservation, and Justice for Peltier
The 13th annual Human Rights Watch international film festival came to a close last night with a sold-out screening of the movie, Skins. The two-week long festival featured heroic and often heart-wrenching stories of activists and survivors from around the world. From Ciudad Juarez in Mexico to an Arab village in Israel to the hard streets of New York, the festival put a human face on threats to individual freedom and dignity. It elevated film to a medium of truth, change, and political struggle.
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A New York State Appeals Court Rules the State Is Only Obliged to Provide An Eighth-Grade Education and Prepare Students for Nothing More Than the Lowest Level Jobs
A New York State appeals court ruled Tuesday that the state is obliged to provide no more than an eighth-grade education to its students and prepare them for nothing more than the lowest-level job. The decision overturned an earlier ruling that New York State had failed its constitutional duty to ensure "a sound, basic education" for New York City schoolchildren. This, as Congress approves over $350 billion in military spending. The suit was brought on behalf of New York City students by a group of parents and activists called the Campaign for Fiscal Equity.
