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Thousands Demand Closure of Fort Benning's School of the Americas

by: Scott Galindez, t r u t h o u t | Report

Protesters at Fort Benning.
Thousands Rally at the gates of Fort Benning. (Photo: Linda Panetta)

This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and the six Jesuit priests with whom she worked at the Central American University in San Salvador. Nearly 5,000 people are gathered in the pouring rain according to Larry White, a protester who spoke to Truthout. Earlier in the day, following a rally featuring a performance by the Indigo Girls, activists participated in the yearly "presente march," »

Yellow crowd.

Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach

by: Laurie Mazur, On the Issues Magazine

In "The 'New' Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go", Betsy Hartmann implies that everyone working on population-environment issues is part of a misogynistic plot to bring back "population control." »

New York and terrorists.

New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials

by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do.

That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, D.C., where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to pedestrian school).

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