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Happy Holidays, Corporate America – I’d Like to File a Complaint
In the spirit of the season, I’d like to file a complaint – about complaints. Corporate America just doesn’t handle them the way they used to. As in, at …
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Mining Companies Back Friend’s Bid for Senate
Nye, Montana - The violation notices keep coming in: broken safety equipment, underground roof collapses, dangerous levels of carbon monoxide — each a hint of the federal enforcement blitz …
The New Dark Age (2)
For almost three days in late October 2011, a couple of hundred people in Claremont, California, discussed the state of the world and found it precarious, nay, unacceptable. …
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“The Harvest/La Cosecha” Reveals Hardships of Child Farmworkers (2)
The Harvest/La Cosecha Director: U. Robert Romano Executive Producer: Eva Longoria 80 minutes $24.95 The conventional wisdom tells us that eating fruits …
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Tens of Thousands Gather in Moscow to Protest
Moscow - Tens of thousands of protesters gathered here on Saturday afternoon for a second large antigovernment demonstration, as a wave of new activists struggle to convert an inchoate …
The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One (2)
Occupy Wall Street has been both criticized and applauded for not endorsing any official platform. But there are unofficial platforms, including one titled the “99 percent Declaration,” which calls …
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Going Postal
There was a time not too long ago when mantles lined with Christmas cards were as ubiquitous as Christmas trees, when birthdays bestowed us with similar arrays, when the …
Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Increase in Veterans’ Suicides
With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average …
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Re-Occupy: A Movement Seeks a Sanctuary
As Occupy Wall Street’s birthday party got going, the mood was mixed—not unlike the mood with which, in a series of improvisations, the movement began three months earlier on …
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Revolutions Don’t Happen in a Day: Five Ways OWS Can Stay Powerful and Truly Build a Movement
On September 17, we took Liberty Square, used it to begin to create the social norms and institutions of a society to come, and became the Occupy movement. We …