Voices Stories by Abby Scher
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Lady Godiva and the fight for taxation to benefit the middle and working class
"Property taxes are crazy, they're not based on income, they're not democratic," said Gioia Shebar a retired teacher who formed the group taxnightmare.org, a website dedicated to battling skyrocketing tax rates that force many into foreclosure. more>
Convention countdowns
During the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, police arrested more than 1,800 people, illegally fingerprinted massive numbers of detainees in a single day and crammed other demonstrators into restrictive “free speech zones.” Four years later, civil liberties lawyers and activists are laboring to ensure that NYPD tactics aren’t employed in Denver. more>