Suffolk Seeks To Help Trafficking Victims Remove Tattoos
Suffolk County leaders and law enforcement officials announced on January 11, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, that they have formed
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Contemplating Nature and War: Veterans Ruck Mashomack
The last of autumn’s colors were still hanging on to the trees in Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island Veterans Day
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South Fork Jewish Community to Haters: “You Are Not The New Normal”
More than 600 people filled the pews and overflowed into a basement meeting room for an interfaith vigil hosted by
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The Universe Comes to Southampton
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, I had the pleasure of attending a talk held by Nobel Prize-winner Rainer Weiss at The
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Lifting the Veil on Local Human Trafficking
Public perception of the idea of human trafficking is often distant from the reality of the world of the trafficked,
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HIFF: The Gory Details of Corruption & Death
Our Look at Two Groundbreaking Films on This Year’s Film Festival Roster by Kara Westerman I taste-tested two wonderful films
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Immigrant Advocates Left Outside as Zeldin Immigration Forum Focuses on Law & Order
It was Suffolk County Community College’s official Constitution Day Monday as students rushing to classes on the Eastern Campus in
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OLA Working on Emergency Assistance and Advocacy for Better Transportation
When Organización Latino-Americana of the East End Transportation Advocate Alma Tovar recently brought a family with a five-week-old little girl
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The Origin of This Fire
by Kara Westerman W.A.V.E., Women Against Violence Everyday, was started five and a half years ago by Shinnecock tribal member
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Language As Code: Laurie Anderson Explores a World of Words
For those who experienced watching the floodwaters of Superstorm Sandy rise, pulverizing personal belongings into a mush and coating our
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Philippe Petit: Prisoner of Passion
by Kara Westerman “If you’re not doing it — whatever ‘it’ is — as if your life depends on it, or you are about
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