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Time to Speak Up: Women’s Prison Resistance in Alabama
While abuses inside an Alabama women's prison have made headlines, less attention has been paid to the activism and organizing by women inside.
Israel’s Assault on Gaza Obscures Core Issues: Racism, Occupation, Colonization
Nobody pays attention to the settlement project or thuggish incitement when there are air raid sirens in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Formerly Incarcerated People Lead Movement to Confront Oppressive “Justice” System
The quest to overturn structural racial and economic injustice in the United States is arguably most powerful in the growing movement to end the racialized system of mass incarceration. …
Getting Serious About Teaching Economics to Boost Developing Countries, Not Just the Big Guys
Overhauling the free market university curriculum must go further than addressing inequality.
A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public …
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The Spanish Town Where People Come Before Profit
While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
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In Desegregation Case, Judge Blasts School Officials and Justice Department
A federal judge in Alabama says local school board has failed to meet legal mandate to integrate.
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With the Plundering of Fossil Fuels, the Future May Be the Past: An Agrarian Society
As we exhaust the fossil fuels and minerals of the planet, we face the threat of exhausting the raw materials that built the modern world.
Israel’s Bombardment of Gaza: What Is Different This Time?
Israeli politicians have openly declared the entire Palestinian people to be the enemy, and radical right-wing Israelis have staged demonstrations calling for death to the Arabs.
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Shark Attack!
Under the right-wing war mongering Bush gang we saw 50 percent of our federal taxes go for military spending. Under Mr. Hope & Change Obama that percentage is now …