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Militarization of police brings rise in sexual violence in Mexico
August 30, 2019Some 2,000 demonstrators, mostly young women, marched through the Zona Rosa area of Mexico City Aug. 16 to protest a recent string of sexual attacks by the police.
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September 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
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Newark’s Video Music Awards can’t mask water crisis horror
August 30, 2019This week the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) took place for the first time at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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Communist Party USA: 100 years in struggle for peace, democracy, socialism
August 30, 2019Just as it was a century ago, the idea of socialism is again on the minds of millions. And just like then, the Communist Party is a part of the mix.
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My parents were Communists: The story of our 1934 eviction
August 30, 2019My mother had not enjoyed a formal education, but she possessed a highly developed sense of working-class “street smarts”: She knew who the enemy was and how to deal with him.
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