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Open letter of objection at https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/alexis-shotwell-open-letter-to-hypatia/

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From a Facebook post, 9 February 2014:


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Originally from http://portland.tribe.net/template/pub%2Coc%2CDetail.vm?topicid=9991b593-4b97-4413-8920-6a7035d90478&plugin=blog&inst=8000287I've recently finished reading the 2013 book Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas (a pen name), having earlier read Martha Stout's 2005 Sociopath Next Door and a variety of other, fairly substantive ( Read more... )

From http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/04/28

"With all the boot-licking coverage of last week's rewriting of history, this photo was nowhere in sight. Yes, it's real: Melissa Stockwell, the first female U.S. soldier to lose a limb in Iraq, reading the Pledge of ( Read more... )

Sex work discussions

• http://www.reedquest.org/2013/04/letter-what-kind-of-awareness-does-nicholas-kristofs-talk-raise/
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"The Twenty-five Lessons" from Mark Kurlasnky's 2006 book Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea. (Modern Library), pp 182-184.

• 1. There is no proactive word for nonviolence.
• 2. Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
• 3. Practitioners of nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
• 4. Once a ( Read more... )

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