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Peter Mellow
February 22, 2017 4:46 PM
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Feminist Voices was banned from Weibo, a Twitter-like service, for 30 days after it posted an article about a women’s strike planned in the U.S. in March.
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Peter Mellow
February 22, 2017 4:19 PM
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The vandalism and threats come as anti-Semitic groups have been emboldened by the election of Donald Trump as US president.
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Peter Mellow
February 20, 2017 7:18 PM
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The officer, Sgt. Keith Wildhaber, alleged that he was turned down for promotions because he “does not fit the stereotypical norms of what a ‘male’ should be.”
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Peter Mellow
February 20, 2017 4:33 PM
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In 1942, Ansel Adams set out to document life inside the Japanese-American internment camp at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. It was a departure for Adams, who at the time was known as a landscape photographer and not for social-documentary work.
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Peter Mellow
February 19, 2017 2:42 AM
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On the 75th anniversary of the order that led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, George Takei warns that Trump policies targeting Muslims and immigrants risk ignoring a painful lesson from America's past.
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Peter Mellow
February 18, 2017 10:44 AM
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The president's failure to reject hatred is emboldening bigots.
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Peter Mellow
February 16, 2017 4:37 PM
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Here's an idea, Australian political parties: maybe meet your candidates *before* endorsing them.
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Peter Mellow
February 15, 2017 9:09 PM
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PewDiePie, YouTube's most popular streamer, is apparently just now learning that all hate speech is hate speech. Disney's Maker Studio severed ties with PewDiePie ― whose real name is Feli
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Peter Mellow
February 9, 2017 9:41 PM
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Cory Bernardi and George Christensen are due to appear at the group's next fundraiser.
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Peter Mellow
February 9, 2017 4:49 PM
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When he got the messages, Marc Yellin wondered, “Have we come to this?”
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Peter Mellow
February 6, 2017 4:02 PM
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House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has said he would be "strongly opposed" to US President Donald Trump addressing the Houses of Parliament during his state visit to the UK.
Mr Bercow told MPs that "opposition to racism and sexism" were "hugely important considerations".
He was applauded by MPs from the SNP after his comments.
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Peter Mellow
February 5, 2017 5:09 AM
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Donald Trump’s newly appointed attorney general said laws designed to help disabled children were to blame for a "decline in civility and discipline" in classrooms. In May 2000, Senator Jeff Sessions argued against federal protections for students with disabilities as part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - citing efforts to place disabled pupils in mainstream classrooms as the reason for bad behaviour in the US public school system.
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Peter Mellow
January 30, 2017 10:04 PM
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In fact, it's highly likely that Trump's policy will do much more harm than good.
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Peter Mellow
from The Student Voice
February 22, 2017 4:43 PM
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The president will issue guidelines to rescind rules that allow the students to use the bathrooms of their choice at school, an order that caused an internal rift.
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Peter Mellow
February 21, 2017 5:01 PM
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American psychologists Nour Kteily and Emile Bruneaushow how some politicians appeal to those who demonise marginalised groups, and how those groups respond with intensified hostility.
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Peter Mellow
February 20, 2017 4:33 PM
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Remembering Japanese American internment camps, 75 years later
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Peter Mellow
February 19, 2017 7:07 PM
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Few politicians attract the level of abuse – personal and political – that Diane Abbott routinely suffers. She has the especially unusual and unenviable distinction of being openly despised by members of her own party as well as her formal enemies across the political spectrum.
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Peter Mellow
February 18, 2017 11:54 PM
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Sharon Verghis lobs a grenade at the unrivalled star's trolls.
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Peter Mellow
February 16, 2017 6:41 PM
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If you feel like it has been a while since an Indian politician said something alarmingly sexist without batting an eyelid and then casually denied the sexism, then Andhra Pradesh Speaker Kodela Shiva Prasad is here to assure you that all the misogyny is alive and kicking. Not only did the TDP politician compare women and sexual assaults to cars and accidents, he did so during a press conference ahead of the ‘National Women’s Parliament’ in Amaravati.
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Peter Mellow
February 16, 2017 4:17 PM
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In a short documentary, a former KKK leader reconnects with the African American woman who helped raise him.
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Peter Mellow
February 15, 2017 9:08 PM
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Arguing with a neo-Nazi just entrenches their beliefs further.
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Peter Mellow
February 9, 2017 7:07 PM
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The destruction and degradation of human life is always insidious and systematic. Once basic values of human life and human rights are eroded by propaganda and falsehoods, society becomes accustomed to performing and entrenching oppression. The voices of anguish and protest are muffled, silenced or destroyed.
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Peter Mellow
February 7, 2017 9:38 PM
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Labour force data actually shows that, after an initial period of relatively high unemployment, employment rates among migrant communities eventually reach parity with the rest of the population.
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Peter Mellow
February 5, 2017 4:40 PM
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The alt-right aren’t the only ones who subscribe to it.
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Peter Mellow
February 5, 2017 2:35 AM
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Shaun Harper offers a path for colleges and universities struggling with racism.
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