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Younge: The Iron Lady Is Dead But Thatcherism Lives On
Znet Article, April, 15 2013
Gary Younge
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In death Margaret Thatcher has caused further division. The left has failed to convince enough people of the alternatives
Younge: Arrests At Chicago Schools Protest
Znet Article, March, 29 2013
Gary Younge
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More than 100 people arrested while taking part in mass civil disobedience against Rahm Emmanuel's cuts and closures
Younge: Newtown Shootings: If Not Now, When Is The Time To Talk About Gun Control?
Znet Article, December, 16 2012
Gary Younge
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It's not 'politics' but basic decency to insist America have a gun control debate
Younge: Hoping For Change: Obama And The Limits Of Elections
Znet Article, October, 30 2012
Gary Younge
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Every progressive development in US politics since WW II has been sparked by massive mobilisations outside of electoral politics or through the courts
Younge: The Itinerant US Left Has Found Its Home In The Occupy Movement
Znet Article, February, 29 2012
Gary Younge
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Far from alienating middle America, the progressive movement has captured the public and political imagination
Younge: Land of the Free, Home of the Hungry
Znet Article, December, 12 2011
Gary Younge
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Nowhere is the chasm between America's political class and its working poor more vast than in the demand to cut food stamps
Younge: They Were Looting, Not Shoplifting
Znet Article, August, 20 2011
Gary Younge
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When a group of people join forces to flout both law and social convention, they are acting politically
Younge: Students' Power Is Limited. But Their Anger and Revolt Can Prove Contagious
Znet Article, December, 07 2010
Gary Younge
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On 1 February 1960 Franklin McCain and three teenage friends from the historically black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, went to the whites-only counter at Woolworths in Greensboro and took a seat.
Younge: 'Even Charles Manson could beat him now'
Znet Article, January, 18 2010
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One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly?
Younge: The US Needs To Talk About Class, But Politicians Don't Have The Vocabulary
Znet Article, April, 15 2008
Gary Younge
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The 90-minute drive from Pittsburgh to Uniontown winds and dips through rural western Pennsylvania, flanked by bare trees waiting to be clothed by a late spring, and drops you at the Appalachians. Historically at least, Uniontown (population 12,50...
Younge: America lauds Martin Luther King, but undermines his legacy every day
Znet Article, April, 01 2008
Gary Younge
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Forty years after the civil rights leader's death, his myth masks how the US remains segregated in practice and attitudes
Younge: Jena: the next step
Znet Article, September, 24 2007
Gary Younge
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Jena: the next step
Younge: The middle of what?
Znet Article, June, 23 2006
Gary Younge
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President George Bush, son of former President George Bush; Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, son of former Teamster's leader Jimmy Hoffa; Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Martin Luther King III, son of former SCLC leader, Martin Luther...
Younge: Please Stop Fetishising Integration. Equality Is What We Really Need
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Gary Younge
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Where race is concerned there are, it seems, some words that just don't go together. No matter how many young drunken white men beat each other up over the weekend, there is no such thing as white-on-white crime. No matter how many non-white peopl...
Younge: Blame the White Trash
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
Gary Younge
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Two young women have achieved iconic status in US President George Bush's battle between good and evil currently touring Iraq. And if the administration's propaganda machine is to be believed, one of them is good and the other one is evil. One the...
Younge: Brutality: The Home Truths
Znet Article, May, 11 2004
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In an interview with an online magazine, Corrections.com, last January, Lane McCotter described Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison at the centre of the torture scandal, as "the only place we agreed as a team was truly closest to an American prison". R...
Younge: The ouster of democracy
Znet Article, March, 08 2004
Gary Younge
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"All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of people," wrote Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in his book, Shah of Shahs, about the Iranian revolution. "T...
Younge: The Capped Crusader
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
Gary Younge
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During the commercial break in this year's Oscars, the floor director approached the nominees for best documentary to tell them that their category was up next. Until then, the issue of an acceptance speech had not entered Michael Moore's mind bec...
