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Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration

The resolution endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle.

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Eat & Drink

Tahini Carrot Salad

Every once in a while I get a craving for tahini and this dish really hits the spot.

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Obama Speaks Out After 10 Killed in Oregon in Year’s 294th Mass Shooting

“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine.”

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Demanding Medicare-for-All, Medical Students Rise Up Nationwide

“Very early in our medical careers… we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system.”

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Mending Library Repairs Clothes and Connects People on SF’s Skid Row

SF’s Mending Library began when Michael Swaine set up a cart and got to work repairing pants, tops, jackets, bags, or whatever else a needle and thread could save.

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Lessons from The American Anti-Slavery Almanac

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac was an attempt to bring awareness about slavery to nineteenth-century America.

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Free the Snake: Restoring North America’s Greatest Salmon River

The time has come to breach the deadbeat dams on the Snake River and reconnect wild salmon to this important watershed.

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Who Cares for the Caregivers?

Caregifted grants respite to long-term family caregivers and works to increase public recognition of their gifts to society.

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‘It Won’t Be Hundreds of Thousands of Refugees in the Next 20 years, It Will Be Millions’

With higher temps, rising seas, droughts, floods, and storms, climate change is already becoming a driver of mass migrations.

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After Decades of Discrimination, Farm & Vineyard Workers Get Pesticide Protections

Farm workers will now have sweeping new protections from pesticides under new EPA rules.