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Amien Essif

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• 24 Apr 13

• Uprising

  Chicago 11th-Graders Walk Out in Defiance of State-Mandated Test

  Wednesday morning, when most public-school 11th graders in Chicago were preparing to take the state-mandated Prairie State Achievement... more »

• 25 Feb 13

• Working

  Boeing Supply-Chain Workers Vote to Strike

  More than 180 workers at a Kent, Wash. plant owned by Hytek Finishes, which manufactures parts for the aerospace more »

• 31 Jan 13

• The ITT List

  TN Senator Proposes To Cut State Diversity Programs—in the Name of MLK

  Who is Jim Summerville? If you ask him, he might say he’s a civil rights leader more »

• 14 Jan 13

• Uprising

  Suicide of Aaron Swartz, Net Neutrality Crusader, Sparks Online Activism

  In the days following the death of 26-year-old programming prodigy Aaron Swartz, activists aligned with Swartz's causes... more »

• 17 Dec 12

• The ITT List

  Cook County Poised to Slash Exorbitant Jail Call Costs By 50 Percent

  In an age of free long-distance Skype calls, why are inmates in America’s prisons paying as more »