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Why White Men Love Star Trek
When you are born black, brown, red, yellow, or female in America no one tells you that you are destined to rule, to become king of the mountain. But …
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The Anti-Choice Extremist Who Wants To Be Virginia’s Governor
The struggle of Texan women against dangerous anti-choice legislation - the struggle that made Senator Wendy Davis an overnight hero for the reproductive health movement - suffered a blow …
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A Picket Line for Civil Liberties: Activists Target Nancy Pelosi for Supporting the Surveillance State
A group of over seventy Sonoma, Marin, and other Bay Area citizens, activists, and community leaders recently took House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to task for supporting …
Radically American: Theodore Dreiser and His Call to Fix Democracy
“Only the mass can get America out of the me,” is the message novelist Theodore Dreiser put forth over a century ago, and it is still true today.
Climate of Change: What Does an Inside-Outside Strategy Mean?
Climate is one of the most important issues of our time, yet it is regarded as more of an inconvenience than an inconvenient truth.
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We’re Taxing the Rich … and So Can You
There is an alternative to austerity; its name is ‘progressive taxes.’
Food for Body, Food for Thought, Food for Justice: People’s Grocery in Oakland, California
When individuals are forced to travel outside their community for groceries, not only does their access to healthy food suffer. The economy does, too.
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Public School Teachers: New Unions, New Alliances, New Politics
Teachers have begun to mount a counteroffensive against the debasement of their work and the torment of their students.
Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System
Ellen Brown: The Federal Reserve Act might have to be modified, but what Congress has wrought can change.
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What It Means to Starve for Freedom in Guantanamo
George Pauk takes a closer look at the Gitmo hunger strikers and hypothesizes about how starvation relates to freedom.