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Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street?
(Photo: Timothy Krause / Flickr) “Where my feminists at?” read a sign propped against a bench at the entrance to Zuccotti Park on Thursday night as a …
How Elizabeth Warren Used Adam Smith Against the Right
Since Elizabeth Warren declared her intentions to challenge Scott Brown on his Senatorial re-election bid, she has become increasingly vocal - not an uncommon strategy for a blossoming politician. …
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Then They Fight You
Occupy Oakland protesters after their camp was destroyed by Oakland police along with ten neighboring police departments. Several hundred protesters regrouped at the intersection of 14th and Broadway …
A Dose of Reality for MTV, or the 1 Percent Monetizes Protest Against the 1 Percent
This is the true story of seven strangers volunteering to sleep on the ground and have their lives taped. Find out what happens when people stop being revolutionary and …
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North Carolina Considers Constitutionally Banning Same-Sex Marriage
Gay marriage is already illegal in North Carolina, but last month, the state's Republican-controlled legislature put a proposal to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage on a …
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Gandhi’s Wings: Occupy Wall Street and the Redistribution of Anxiety
It's my home — last night I dreamt that I grew wings I found a place where they could hear me when I sing —"Wings" by …
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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed
It is class warfare. It was not begun, however, by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly. Rather, this war was sparked …
Occupy Oakland Regroups in Frank Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA - October 26, 2011 - Three thousand grassroots people and political activists resume the rally and occupation in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall, the …
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Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times as Much as the Entire Labor Movement to Buy Judicial Elections
After the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in American elections, the decision’s defenders claimed this wasn’t such a big deal because unions …
“Blood on the Tracks”: Brian Willson’s Memoir of Transformation From Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist
Today we spend the hour with a man who put his life on the line twice: once when he served in the Vietnam War and again when he came …