Blake Skylar
LATEST ARTICLES BY Blake Skylar
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Opinion
X-Men presents comics’ first interracial gay wedding
May 24, 2012Astonishing X-Men #50, which hit shelves May 23, was the issue in which Northstar proposed to his boyfriend.
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Activists abuzz over Bayer’s bee killing
May 23, 2012Some 90+ activists gathered in San Pablo Park in West Berkeley, California, near where one of the Bayer facilities was located, to protest the company's insect-killing.
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In the “other Chicago,” mental health patients out of options
May 23, 2012Millions gathered in the Windy City for the NATO summit. But over in the "other Chicago" - the inner city, Latino and African American-majority neighborhoods, people are suffering.
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Chicago activists protest Heartland Institute conference
May 23, 2012Over a dozen environmental activists gathered to protest the Heartland Institute, which put up ads comparing environmentalists to the Unabomber.
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Tom Morello, Nurses Union gather in Chicago
May 21, 2012The event and its guitar-shredding conclusion saw nurses and workers of all ages and ethnicities, and from all walks of life, joining together and cheering Morello's encouraging words.
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EPA appeals coal mining ruling
May 16, 2012A federal judge ruled in March that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a large West Virginia coal-mining project.
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Proposed bill would end fossil fuel subsidies
May 15, 2012Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. announced they would introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act to Congress.
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Study exposes fracking’s poisonous effects
May 11, 2012Now, concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale have skyrocketed, in light of a recent scientific study.
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