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Troopers Shoot 76-Year-Old Man After Responding To Wrong Home

A 76-year-old man in New Jersey is in critical condition after being shot by the two state troopers responding to the wrong address.

True Activist
August 9th, 2016
By True Activist
August 9th, 2016

A 76-year-old man in Upper Deerfield Township, Cumberland, New Jersey is in critical condition after being shot by the two state troopers responding to the wrong address. The man, Gerald Sykes, was sleeping in his house in the 300 block of Centerton Road when dispatchers received a 911 call from a residence shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Friday, but

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WikiLeaks: Alcohol Industry Bribed Congress To Demonize Marijuana

Newly leaked information reveals that officials in some of the top alcohol companies in America spent money on persuading members of Congress to pay attention to the alleged problem of “marijuana-impaired driving.”

True Activist
August 8th, 2016
By True Activist
August 8th, 2016
A marijuana plant stands during a press presentation of a legal medicinal marijuana harvest in the La Florida municipality of Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Planting, selling and transporting marijuana is usually illegal in Chile and carries prison terms of up to 15 years. But the law allows medical use of marijuana with the authorization of several ministries.

When one compares the effects of marijuana to alcohol, there really is no competition. To begin with, alcohol is responsible for approximately 88,000 deaths in the United States each year and marijuana 0. In addition, people can die from overdosing on alcohol but it’s nearly impossible with marijuana. Salon relays that while alcohol use damages

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Chicago Vets Are Keeping These Students Safe In Dangerous Neighborhoods

Leave No Veteran Behind employs these local veterans by paying off their debt and helping them look for jobs. Their job is to look out for the 8,000 students commuting to school every day.

True Activist
April 14th, 2016
By True Activist
April 14th, 2016

Veterans in Chicago are keeping students safe in one of the most dangerous regions of Chicago by being present as the students walk to school. The Safe Passage Program, founded in 2011 by a non-profit organization called Leave No Veteran Behind (LNVB), has two purposes: to reduce the violence in these areas and to pay off the student debt of

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New LA Law: Homeless People Can Only Own A Trashcan’s Worth Of Belongings

These misguided approaches to homelessness have only served to increase the amount of homeless people in the city and make their quality of life that much worse.

True Activist
April 9th, 2016
By True Activist
April 9th, 2016
In this Monday, March 7, 2016, photograph, Salvatore Garofalo sits in a lawn chair in a makeshift homeless camp across from the Denver Rescue Mission in downtown Denver. City officials are planning to evict people on Tuesday from the homeless camps that have popped up around homeless shelters and in public places around the Mile High City. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

As though homeless people don’t already own so few possessions, the city of Los Angeles just passed a law saying that the amount of things a homeless person can own must fit inside of a trashcan. They even have size dimensions for the trashcan, noting that the items must fit in a 60-gallon trashcan and the lid must close over it. The new law

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On Banksy’s Christmas Card Joseph And Mary Can’t Make It To Bethlehem Because of Police State

Banksy’s classic Christmas card shows a picture of Joseph and Mary crossing the desert on their way to Bethlehem and are blocked by the infamous apartheid wall that separates Israel from Palestine and the West Bank.

True Activist
December 21st, 2015
By True Activist
December 21st, 2015

The card has recently gone viral again because of the holidays, but it is actually a few years old and seems to circulate around this time every year. The piece first appeared at Santa’s Ghetto exhibit in London in 2005, which followed Banksy’s trip to the middle east. Regardless of when the image was created, it sends a powerful message

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Muslim Woman Donates $1 For Every Hate Tweet She Receives

Susan Carland is turning the hostility of Internet trolls into a “force for good” – one hate-filled tweet at a time.

True Activist
November 18th, 2015
By True Activist
November 18th, 2015
Credit: The Plaid Zebra

The anonymity of the internet has given too many cowards false bravado. Shielded by a computer screen and miles of distance, it’s easy for individuals to nitpick and spout anger at others they do not understand or may be jealous of. This, of course, is a form of cyber-bullying, one of the unfortunate side effects of the technological

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Johnny Depp To Buy Site Of Wounded Knee Massacre, Give It Back To Native Americans

“This historical land is so important to the Sioux culture and all I want to do is buy it and give it back. Why doesn’t the government do that?”

True Activist
October 26th, 2015
By True Activist
October 26th, 2015
Members of the American Indian Movement walk to the Wounded Knee Massacre Monument Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 in Wounded Knee, S.D. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton)

Editor's note: This article was republished from TruActivist.  Most of the information gleaned from the article are based on events covered by The Daily Mail on July 6th, 2013. Click here to read MintPress' reporting on the events from 2013. In an interview with The Daily Mail on Sunday, well-known actor Johnny Depp disclosed that he

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