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Financing Questions Shadow Tunisian Vote, First of Arab Spring
Tunis - As Tunisians prepare to vote on Sunday in the first election of the Arab Spring, the parties and their supporters have ramped up a bitter debate over …
Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice?
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Parent trigger laws, according to their proponents, give parents power. Gregory McGinity, managing director of policy for the Broad Education Foundation, calls …
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In Sign of Global Influence, China Cracking Down on Occupy Wall Street Coverage
Occupy Wall Street at Liberty Square in New York City, NY, marching to Chase Bank, October 12, 2011. (Photo: a c o r n) When the Occupy …
Falling for New Neocon Propaganda
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times) …
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(Un)occupy Albuquerque Connects Corporate Greed to Fight for Native Land
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The 99 percent movement that’s swept the country has reached Albuquerque, New Mexico. But organizers there have decided to alter the “Occupy” …
Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it …
“The Savage City” Revisits Notorious Crimes to Reveal Biased Policing
(Photo: Tim Musson / Flickr) Probably few of the Americans who heard Martin Luther King preach his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the …
Occupy the Mortgage Lenders
Washington, DC – Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and …
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“Occupy Obama” Could Turn Up Heat on the Democrats
President Barack Obama is no longer running unchallenged in all the major primary states, thanks to activists in Iowa who are focusing their Occupy Wall Street activism onto the …
Secure Communities Silences Domestic Violence Victims
For years, Yan endured brutal beatings and repeated rapes at the hands of her husband. An undocumented immigrant from Asia, she never called the police out of fear that …