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Philly trans* march draws broad support
Hundreds of people gathered at Thomas Paine Plaza on Oct. 10 for Philadelphia’s fifth annual Trans* March [“trans*” is a word currently used with an asterisk to indicate the spectrum of all the...
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Mumia supporters highlight HCV epidemic
Philadelphia — An “Emergency Town Hall and Report to the People” was held here Nov. 13 to garner support for a campaign demanding that the state of Pennsylvania immediately provide life-saving drugs...
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Support the Dec. 18 hearing on Mumia Abu-Jamal’s health crisis
U.S. Federal Court Judge Robert Mariani has ordered a full evidentiary hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal in Scranton, Pa., on Dec. 18 based on a preliminary injunction filed in August seeking medical care to...
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Rx company mergers put meds out of reach for millions
Around 170 million people globally are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus. Left untreated, HCV causes liver disease and other complications that kill 350,000 to 500,000 people every year....
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Mumia Abu-Jamal gets hep C hearing in court
Scranton, Pa. — It was a full-court press by supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal as he brought his case seeking proper medical care to treat the hepatitis C virus against the Pennsylvania...
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Exposure of DOC’s faked evidence shakes Mumia’s Hep C hearing
Scranton, Pa. The third and final day for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ended on Dec. 23 with the jaw-dropping revelation that the lawyer representing the...
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Black Lives Matter activists disrupt Philly Mummers New Year event
Calling for “no business as usual while police kill Black and Brown people daily,” the Philadelphia Coalition for R.E.A.L. (Racial, Economic and Legal) Justice led a protest at the 116th Mummers...
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Treat hep C in Philly jails!
Supporters of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal took their campaign demanding life-saving drugs for him and 10,000 other Pennsylvania prisoners suffering from chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) to...
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Behind the death of energy mogul Aubrey McClendon
Aubrey McClendon did not invent fracking — the process that unleashed widespread drilling for natural gas — but he convinced Wall Street to invest in shale gas by purchasing land leases for future...
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EPA ignores fire threatening nuclear waste landfill
In 1973, thousands of tons of toxic radioactive waste from processed uranium for nuclear weapons were illegally dumped into the Westlake landfill in the town of Bridgeton, Mo., next door to Ferguson....
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