#LastWords and #LastWords Heard by Shirin Barghi https://t.co/DIM4O5A1zY via @naheitzeg #MikeBrown #Fegruson #Police #BlackLivesMatter — nancy a heitzeg (@naheitzeg) November 1, 2014 [View the story “#LastWords and #LastWords Heard by Shirin Barghi” on Storify] (18)
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From PBS: For-profit colleges that don’t produce graduates capable of paying off their student loans could soon face the wrath of the federal government. Schools with career-oriented programs that fail to comply with the new rule being announced Thursday by the Obama administration stand to lose access to federal student-aid…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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Meet Loukanikos, Athens’ Protest Dog, TIME Greece’s riot dog Loukanikos dies, The Guardian A Farewell to Paws, Al Jazeera America Art of the Obituary: Loukanikos, The New Inquiry “The pressure needed to keep politicians in line is absent. There is no one barking threateningly at their feet; there is no…
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On this day in 2002, Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia and five others died in that fateful plane crash. His legacy and his words speak for themselves, and remind us, always, of what government for good can do. He was The Conscience of the Senate, the First…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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Struggle Against Extinction This year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will again document the planet’s rarest animals and focus on the twists of fate that decide survival Toshiji Fukuda went to extraordinary lengths to photograph an Amur tiger, one of the world’s rarest mammals, in 2011. He built a…
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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