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Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police
U.S. communities are experimenting with alternative first-response models that minimize contact with the police.
Youth-Led Direct Action Campaign Yields Trauma Center for Chicago’s South Side
Organizer Veronica Morris Moore discusses how activists' direct action campaign resulted in plans to build a trauma center in an underserved community.
Poet Remi Kanazi: Global and Palestinian Movements for Justice Are Inseparable
Kanazi discusses his latest book of poems, which incorporates images of struggles for social justice in Palestine and worldwide.
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Our Prosperity Is in Peril Unless We Shift From a Wasteful World to a “Circular Economy“
This path is simply not sustainable, both for the environment and the way we live.
Garrisoning the Globe: How US Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security
Such bases helped lock us inside a permanently militarized society.
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Dean Baker | Lehman Day: Making Fun of the Second Great Depression Crowd
September 15th is the day set aside to ridicule the people who warned of a second Great Depression.
Direct Action Taken – and Needed – in the Lead-Up to Paris Climate Summit
This is direct action as it should be - an action which targets the very source of the problem and stops it in its tracks.
The Consequences of Our Underwhelming Criminal Legal System Reform Debate
As we revel in our moral courage, we've failed to fully apprehend the enormity of our moral failures.
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Will Monsanto Launch another “Sneak Attack” in Congress?
Something is going to happen. If you're not at the table, you’re on the menu.
Forty Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange Compensation
The battle boils down to a comma.