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  Audio Interview

  The Right to Challenge: The ACLU Heads to the Supreme Court

  October 26, 2012 - 

  This Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments from the ACLU challenging the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. We speak with Director of the ACLU, Center for Democracy, Jameel Jaffer the lead attorney appearing before the court this Monday.  More

  By Rajkamal Kahlon

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  Op-Ed

  Distracting Vaginas and the Body Politic

  October 7, 2012 - 

  Drawing from the mythology that has informed her artistic research, Suzanne Lacy examines the sexist language that shapes American politics, including Missouri State Rep. Todd Akin’s recent claim that women do not risk pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.”  More

  By Suzanne Lacy

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  Podcast: Forms of Life

  Lighting Up the Streets with the 99%

  September 19, 2012 - 

  As Occupy Wall Street celebrated its first anniversary, Forms of Life host Nato Thompson talks to artist and activist Mark Read about his street interventions and the fate of the movement.  More

  By Nato Thompson and Mark Read

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  Uprisings

  MTL Reports: #DebtBurn

  September 17, 2012 - 

  MTL, a collaborative movement that fuses research and aesthetics with activism, captures the first action of Strike Debt, an arm of Occupy Wall Street that aims to build a debt resistance movement in the United States.  More

  By MTL

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  Photo Gallery

  Quebec: New Premier Is Elected

  September 7, 2012 - 

  On the heels of a tuition hike threat, Canadian graphic design collective École de la Montagne Rouge [Red Mountain School] produced posters rejecting a raise in school fees and later implored people to vote in the province’s general election.  More

  By École de la Montagne Rouge