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Yemen: After Two Years of War A Stupendous Human Crisis Looms

Helen Lackner Open Democracy
On March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into an international conflict and a humanitarian disaster. Even as the Trump Administration moves to increase the US role in the fighting, no end to the war is in sight. There are now some 40,000 human casualties, including more than 2,500 children and 1,900 women killed directly by the air strikes. And a child dies every ten minutes from disease or hunger.

Friday Nite Videos -- Oct 31 (Rock the Vote 2014)

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Bad Reputation (music video). Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT. Democalypse 2014 -- Ad of Brothers. Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression. What Would Happen Under a Republican Senate?

Bad Reputation (Music Video)

In 2013, there were more laws passed to limit women’s reproductive rights than in the entire previous DECADE.

Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT

Rock The Vote Presents #TURNOUTFORWHAT starring Lil Jon and featuring Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen, E.J. Johnson, Darren Criss, Sophia Bush, Ireland Baldwin, Devendra Banhart, Ioanna Gika and Gabriel Valenciano. 

Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression

At a photo shoot with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho, ACLU voting rights ambassador Lewis Black gets so f#%!in’ tired of politicians trying to deny people the right to vote.

Jim Crow Returns

Greg Palast Al Jazeera
Millions of minority voters are threatened by an electoral purge

Hints of Progress in the Ebola Fight

Dina Fine Maron Scientific American
The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease?