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Eight Horrific and Uplifting Stories About Being Gay in the New Russia

By Julia Ioffe New Republic
In February, as the gay-propaganda law made its way through the Duma, a popular Moscow magazine called Afisha ran a rainbow flag on its cover. Inside were the stories and portraits of 30 gay men and women of Moscow. They were lawyers, entrepreneurs, nurses, and I.T. specialists; there was even a welder named “Sergei Ivanov,” the Russian equivalent of John Smith.

The Emergent Academic Proletariat and its Shortchanged Students

By Claire Goldstene Dissent: A Quarterly of Politics and Culture
The circumstances of contingent faculty and indebted students are simultaneously emblematic of national trends toward precarious employment and long term financial anxiety amid enormous national wealth, and more deeply implicated because of the power of education to act as an egalitarian social force.

Students, Parents, Pastors Announce Possible Schools Boycott

Daniel Denvir Philadelphia Citypaper - Philadelphia's Independent Weekly Newspaper
POWER met with hundreds of parents, students and teachers as the city and state fail to fill most of a $304 million school funding gap that has forced the layoff of thousands of teachers and staff.

Detroit's Downfall: Beyond the Myth of Black Misleadership

Marilyn Katz In These Times - Web Only Features
How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight. Detroit's first black mayor, Coleman Young, and those that followed may not have known it, but Detroit was already on life support and they were the hospice team.

Back in the Big Labor Fold

Harold Meyerson Talking Union
Today, the AFL-CIO is seeking to arrest labor's decline through its Working America affiliate, which is a groundbreaking effort at large-scale community organizing, and has some as yet undefined alliance with such other progressive groups as the Sierra Club and the NAACP.

Media Bits & Bytes - I Spy Edition

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WikiLeaks Rescues Edward Snowden (Literally!); Correcting Bruce Sterling's Revisionist Cyber-History; Lavabit Email Encryption Service, Bites the Dust; Turf Wars in the Internet Underworld; Pirate Bay Turns Ten!