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Political activism | Political activism

duane-poncy's picture
Jan.26.2011
When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in sexual bondage gear.  Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by...
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May.09.2010
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college...
sonya-huber's picture
Feb.18.2008
It had come to this: breastfeeding her screaming three-month-old while sitting on the cigarette-scarred floor of a union hall, lying to her husband so she could attend yet another activist meeting, and otherwise actively self-destructing. Then Sonya Huber turned to her long-dead grandfather, the...