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Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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Environmentalists seek climate action in U.S. infrastructure bill
March 17, 2021Environmental groups are launching a $10 million push for Congress to make climate change central to infrastructure legislation.
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‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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One year later: Don’t forget about Breonna Taylor
March 17, 2021Her death sparked a movement for change. The fight goes beyond a trending hashtag, though, and speaks to the inequalities and racism that are still very much embedded in our system.
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