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At the Movies: Rising Up Down South

November 23rd, 2011

By Jan Barry The myriad marches, sit-ins, camp-ins and other protest demonstrations sweeping across America these days didn’t spring up out of nowhere. Such actions against entrenched injustice were honed in the civil rights movement that shook up authorities in the 1950s and 1960s. That movement energized and inspired a groundswell of grassroots movements against […]

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Tags: civil rights, democracy, demonstrations, dissent, environment, film, protest
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Activist or Egotist? Choosing Darfur over Dorchester

September 12th, 2011

by Richard D. Bailey I parked cars in the middle of Yale University when I was in graduate school. I was going to Fairfield University some 30 miles away. But I lived in New Haven and had worked in the Mayor’s office after college so I was friendly with and knew a lot of political […]

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Tags: activists, Apartheid, Darfur, demonstrations, Dorchester, radicals, Yale
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