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How Can We Reclaim the Holiday Season From Corporations?
Americans spend more than $20 billion a year on toys for kids - with most of that green leaving their pockets between now and the end of December.
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Cyber Activism Scores Victories Behind the Great Firewall
Netizens took to cyberspace to chastise the legal system, which they believed would treat Li Tianyi leniently because of his familyu2019s status, and to demand justice.
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A Seminar on the Labor Movement — With an Opinionated Professor
Reading Save our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress is like sitting in on a seminar on the modern labor movementu2014with Steve Early playing the role of opinionated …
Public Citizen Sues Online Retailer That Damaged Utah Customer’s Credit in Retaliation for Critical Online Review
Customer refused KlearGear.com's demand for $3,500 over web posting.
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Under Amazon’s CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them.
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Bills in Congress Crack Down on Whistleblowers
Despite his rhetoric, Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any administration in history and overseen the massive growth of the NSA's surveillance apparatus.
Bilingual Education Produces a More Diverse Mind and Society
A recent incident in Hempstead Texas made news when a middle school principal ordered Mexican-American students not to speak Spanish or else face punishment.
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Today’s Forecast Is for Climate-Proof Farming
Even as weather extremes bedevil Caribbean farmers, Ramgopaul Roop has turned his three-acre fruit farm into a showcase for how to beat climate change.
Secret Trade Deal Spawns ‘We Will Not Obey’ Movement
When it comes to corporations trampling on local rights, the city of Madison, Wis., advises other cities and counties to do what it has done: Resist much. Obey not.
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The Airfare Mystery
Beneath the surface (on travel web sites), it turns out that a large part of the price difference between these two routes is not the actual payment to the …