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In the marriage equality movement, a lot depends on what door people came through to get there. If the door only says "Gay," then that's all people look for in the movement. I came through the door marked "Equality and Justice for All."

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Last year, an eclectic group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer organizers, scholars, funders, writers, and other cultural workers came together to discuss marriage and family politics as they exist in thea United States today. Their statement, "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships" can be read in its entirety at www.beyondmarriage.org, and has been endorsed by hundreds of pro-LGBT movers and shakers throughout the country. In the article that follows, one of the statement's 19 authors -- speaking for herself and not the entire group -- summarizes this new vision and assesses its relevance in light of recent political developments.

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A shared biotech commons could enable us to analyze the options for social, environmental, and economic interventions independent of corporate control.

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At the World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya, African civil society rejected the Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations' $150 million Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa -- AGRA. The Green Revolution consisted of converting cropland to "high-yield" seeds which need to be purchased each season, and which require intensive fertilizer and pesticide use.

The creators of AGRA promise to bring benefits to the African continent's 180 million impoverished farmers who, they claim, have until now been bypassed by the first Green Revolution.

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To stop this war, for the soldiers to stop fighting it, you must show potential military resisters that no matter how long they sit in prison their families will have a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.

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When these communities and their leaders refuse to cooperate with the military, they are treated as terrorists -- a pattern being recreated across the nation, largely as a result of the US-funded war on drugs and terror.

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Israeli closure policies, international sanctions, and US maneuvering to topple the democratically elected legislature have together led to a devastating situation for civilians.

Despite hopes that the Israeli withdrawal of its settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005 might make life better for Gazans, 1.4 million Palestinians continue to live in devastated, poverty-stricken communities on a strip of land 25 by 6 miles long.

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Let's pledge to one another to embrace the
fullness of the human worth and dignity of us all.

History gets erased -- by intentional action as well as by inadvertence. Which made the reporter's question so mundane: "Do you think Black History month is really important? Hasn't it become a cliché, unnecessarily separated off from American history?"

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Thirty-nine years ago, on January 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was to change my life forever.
As I now contemplate another January 20th I cannot help but think of the young men and women who have been wounded in the war in Iraq. They have been coming home now for almost three years, flooding Walter Reed, Bethesda, Brooke Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals all across the country.

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Despite the Democratic Party's bankrolling of pro-war candidates, anti-war candidates won election at a higher rate.