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Goliath Gets Bigger: Prop. 1 War Chest Grows to $16.4 million
The big corporate money behind the water bond largely determines who the bond will benefit - billionaires, corporate agribusiness, oil companies and the 1 percent, not the people, fish …
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Faces of Fracking: Rebecca Claassen
A grassroots effort in Santa Barbara County to stop intensive oil production fights against millions from the oil industry.
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Fasting for Democracy: Why I’ve Given Up Food to Fight Corruption
The struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something.
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Halfway There
What we need to imagine, I think, is a new kind of “prosperity” - one that combines a carefully limited consumption of nature's regenerative resources with a robust consumption …
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Nature Conservancy Contributes $500,000 to Yes on Proposition 1 Campaign
Prop. 1 opponents find it even more disturbing to find out that the Nature Conservancy has joined a rogue's gallery of corporate interests that want to pass the $7.5 …
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A Mother Who Just Wanted to Know When Her Son Would Eat
With her dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail, one can see the emotions that play across Canales' face when she talks about solitary confinement - especially since her …
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Vonderrit Myers “Shot in Back”: Slave Patrol Officials Continue Disinformation Campaign
For this slave patroller, African boys running down a street automatically indicate suspicious and criminal behavior.
Will Democrats Be Able to Talk Seriously About the Economy in 2016?
President Obama can rightly say that he inherited a mess from his predecessor, but at some point that does get old.
“I Have Just Been Ordered Not to Speak”: Reasons for Greek Public Broadcasting Shutdown
Who profited and who lost from the Greek government's sudden shutdown of a national public broadcaster?
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Who’s Buying the Midterm Elections? A Bunch of Old White Guys
Just 42 people are responsible for nearly a third of Super PAC spending in the 2014 election.