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Cassandra Lopez

Cassandra Lopez is a longtime civil rights and community activist and organizer in Oakland, California.

• Oakland demonstrators say, ‘Black Trans Lives Matter!’
• Black history celebration: Up close and personal

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Win Heimer

Win Heimer is an activist writing from Connecticut.

• Uprising over healthcare spills onto the Senate floor
• Honoring MLK, hundreds in Hartford demand end to inequality

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Nick Ryan

• Reynoldsburg, Ohio teachers strike continues as Board of Education digs in

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Nedra Pickler

• Obama proposes publicly funded community colleges for all
• Holder resigning: Attorney general brought change

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Megan Delilah

• Students declare national boycott of Wendy’s
• State of Florida itself at stake on November 4

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Steve Kloppenburg

• This is what I see when I drive
• Dead child walking: A cry from the heart

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Malcolm Burns

• Scotland: In the wake of referendum “No” result

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Sydnee Odei-Ntiri

• Why I am going to the People’s Climate March

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Rev. Jim Conn

Rev. Jim Conn is the founding minister of the Church in Ocean Park and served on the Santa Monica City Council and as that city's mayor. He helped found Clergy...

• Still learning from Martin Luther King Jr.
• Organizing a cure for flatlining wages

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