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“Pussy Riot” wins award from Yoko Ono, praise from Aung San Suu Kyi

By Katie | Published: September 25, 2012
TweetAs we’ve blogged about in the past, three members of the Russian punk feminist band Pussy Riot have spent the last six months in prison singing a protest prayer against Russian leader Vladimir Putin inside an Orthodox cathedral. On Friday, Yoko Ono, who has been vocal in her support of the three women, who were [...]
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The lessons we must learn from the Giffords shooting

By Katie | Published: January 24, 2012
TweetAs Eesha pointed out yesterday, Representative Gabby Giffords announced that she would step down in a moving video. This, of course, was just over a year after being shot, along with 11 others, six of whom died, by a man should never have had access to a gun. It was also nearly two years after [...]
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