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Headlines for May 31, 2013; In Civil Rights Victory, Virginia Restores Voting Rights For Hundreds of Thousands Nonviolent Felons; As FBI Seeks Capture of Assata Shakur, NAACP Head Calls For U.S. Truth & Reconciliation Commission; Oscar López Rivera: After 32 Years in Prison, Calls Grow for Release of Puerto Rican Activist; Four Years After Murder of Dr. George Tiller, His Wichita Abortion Clinic Reopens Despite Threats

Headlines for April 12, 2013; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Speaks Out For Sexual Abuse Victims; Reflects on Lifetime of Activism

Headlines for April 08, 2013; "The Kissinger Cables": Three Years After "Collateral Murder," WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy; Icelandic Lawmaker Birgitta Jonsdottir on Challenging Gov't Secrecy From Twitter to Bradley Manning; Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013): Tariq Ali on Late British PM's Legacy From Austerity to Apartheid

Headlines for April 05, 2013; At National Conference for Media Reform, Activists Hope to Stop Murdoch, Koch-Backed Consolidation; Digital Disconnect: Robert McChesney on "How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy"; Colorado Independent: Suspect in Killing of Prisons Chief Tormented By Years of Solitary Confinement; "Shadows of Liberty": New Film Explores How Corporate Control of Media Erodes Press Freedoms

Headlines for April 03, 2013; Silent on Assault-Weapons Ban Defeat and NRA-Backed Dems, Has Obama Collapsed on Gun Control?; NRA's "School Shield" Call for Armed Guards Seen as Path to Further Criminalize Youth of Color; A Gun In Every Home? Nelson, Georgia Residents Debate New Law Mandating Forced Ownership of Firearms

Headlines for April 02, 2013; The Monsanto Protection Act? A Debate on Controversial New Measure Over Genetically Modified Crops; Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America from Monsanto to Wal-Mart

Headlines for April 01, 2013; Texas DA Killed Two Months After Deputy Shot Dead; Aryan Brotherhood Probed in Killings; Prosecutor Seeks Stay of Execution for Texas Prisoner Duane Buck, Sentenced to Death for Being Black; Texas Prosecutor Linda Geffin, Victim of Brutal Attack at Home, on the Killing of DA Mike McLelland; ExxonMobil Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Ruptures in Arkansas as Obama Ponders Fate of Keystone XL

Headlines for March 29, 2013; Strange Bedfellows: While Urging Gun Laws at Home, Obama Joins NRA to Weaken U.N. Arms Trade Treaty; The Other Rosa Parks: Now 73, Claudette Colvin Was First to Refuse Giving Up Seat on Montgomery Bus

Headlines for March 28, 2013; "Skim-Milk Marriage": Justices Cast Doubt on DOMA in Case Brought By 83-Year-Old Lesbian Widow; Debate: Does Marriage Equality Reinforce a Conservative Institution or Support Social Change?; “Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement”: Film Portrays Lesbian Couple Behind Defense of Marriage Case