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Republicans, voters and yes, Democrats are to blame for making Muslims feel like second-class citizens

In a united voice, Puerto Rican society has called on President Obama to release López Rivera. Members of the Puerto Rican diaspora and others in the US have also joined this campaign. As part of this growing support, New York attorneys Juan Cartagena and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan accompanied attorney and activist Jan Susler, who represents López Rivera, on a legal visit in November. The attorneys' last image of the political prisoner made a deep impression.

The pair talked pot, poverty, guns, social justice, universal healthcare and more in a wide-ranging conversation at Killer Mike's Atlanta barber shop.

According to The Associated Press, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber has acknowledged the students' concern about Wilson's racism. But he's urged them to take the rest of Wilson's career into account, including the fact that he was president of both Princeton and the United States. Unfortunately, a true accounting of Wilson's full impact goes far beyond his well-known racism.

Big oil, big lies; Muslims to the rescue in San Bernardino; Trudell walks on; NRA mojo slipping; Mockin' the bros

During the midterm elections in 2014, for which there was a historically low showing, voters in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, reached through Ms. Hackett’s initiative, turned out at a considerably higher rate than registered voters in the Bronx and Queens generally, 35 percent compared with 22 percent. Nearly half of those “community voters” had a household income of under $25,000. Among those reached in Queensbridge through Jacob Riis, turnout was 40 percent.

Between 13-15 December, the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, Mada al Carmel, the Birzeit University Institute of Law, the Stop the Wall Campaign, the Trans-Arab Research Institute (TARI), and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) will be convening a conference under the banner: Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice in Palestine. What follows is a summary of the ideas that led the aforementioned organizations to join together in this effort.

More than 2,000 workers remain on strike in Kohler, Wisconsin, a site of historic struggles for labor rights.

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Tuberculosis (TB) is winning a deadly race – this year it overtook HIV as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing 1.5 million people annually. The findings of the Out of Step report into national TB policies. The report will be launched on December 2 at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health, Cape Town, South Africa.