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Last Thursday, after participating in the weekly nonviolent protest outside the Burlington, Massachusetts, ICE headquarters, I returned to my car parked at the Burlington Mall. The parking lot was practically empty. I had been gone about an hour. Yet before I could leave, a mall security officer stopped me and informed me that if I…
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What do the following titles have in common: Ulysses, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? If you answered that they’ve all been banned or challenged in the United States at some point, give yourself a gold star. Each is now considered a literary…
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As I was walking across the rainbow crosswalk on Page Street in Danvers, near where I live and raised my children, I had to stop cold. Taken aback by the unusual number of scuff marks, I wondered whether they were simply due to road wear and tear or, instead, to deliberate desecration. Since I didn’t…
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Robert Gamer: Author & Activist 