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Meet the Hip Hop Artists Bringing Music Classes to Kids in Kenya's Slums
by Molly Rusk, Nur Lalji, Liz Pleasantposted Jun 06, 2014 - Artists from Seattle's hip hop scene—including Macklemore and Ryan Lewis—speak about music's healing power.
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This East LA Band's Rebel Version of "La Bamba" Speaks Out Against Racism
by Christine St. Pierreposted Jun 06, 2014 - Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
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Acupuncture, Yoga, and Massage: Not Just for Rich People
by Liz Pleasantposted Jun 06, 2014 - From Oakland to Brooklyn, practitioners of holistic health care are working to make their services affordable for all.
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“Never Think You’re Worth Less Than the Boss”: How a Mexican Seamstress Learned to Speak Up for Justice
by Ana Juárezposted Jun 06, 2014 - Ana Juárez started her first job at the age of fifteen, as a sewing operator’s assistant in Mexico. She was working at a local contracting company of global brands like Levi Strauss & Co. when senior workers began to organize.
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The Power of Oral History: Personal Narratives Take Us Deep Into the Human Rights Stories Hidden Behind the Headlines
by Christa Hillstromposted Jun 06, 2014 - When people tell their own stories, history is written from the bottom up.
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Talking Cows Take on Factory Farms—Matrix Style
by Jonah Sachsposted Jun 04, 2014 - The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
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How the Family Farm Stole My Sense of Self—For the Better
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A Modern-Day Debtors’ Prison? Judges Push Back Against the South’s Privatization Wave
by Daniel Rossposted Jun 04, 2014 - In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies charging fees out of reach to the country's poorest residents. Many people end up in jail for nonpayment. These judges want private companies out of their courts.
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Language Matters: How #YesAllWomen Named a Problem With No Name
by Rebecca Solnitposted Jun 04, 2014 - If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can’t talk about it—which means that you can’t come together to change it.
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Bangkok Protestors Strike Back at Coup—With Forbidden Hunger Games Salute
by Christopher Zumski Finkeposted Jun 03, 2014 - Thai protestors borrow a sign of solidarity from Hollywood's silver screen to fight new national curfew and banned public gatherings.
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Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage—Will Your Town Be Next?
by YES! Editorsposted Jun 03, 2014 - Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
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Game Changer: EPA to Regulate Carbon Emissions from Power Plants
by Brandon Bakerposted Jun 02, 2014 - Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of United States' carbon emissions. That pollution would be regulated for the first time under the new proposed rules.
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"Look Mom, No Bus!"—Walking to School Helps Kids Stay Fit and Have Fun
by Molly Ruskposted Jun 02, 2014 - A program called the Walking School Bus provides kids an easy way to get regular exercise while getting to know their neighborhood.
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“In 10 Years, I Want to Walk Again”: How a Worker Making Circuit Boards Got Sick—and Is Holding Samsung Accountable
by Hye-kyeong Hanposted Jun 01, 2014 - While manufacturing circuit boards for Samsung, Hye-kyeong Han was diagnosed with a brain tumor, leading her to undergo a number of surgeries and radiation treatments. She was just 26 years old.
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“Now They Can’t Get Me to Stop Talking”: How a Teenage Tobacco Farmworker in North Carolina Found Her Voice
by Neftali Cuelloposted Jun 01, 2014 - In North Carolina, when school gets out each summer, a stream of young people—nearly all Latino—head into the fields to help bring in the state’s most profitable crop: tobacco. Neftali Cuello was twelve years old when she first accompanied her family into the fields.
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