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Occupy Movement Confronts Racial Disparities Within America’s 99 Percent
New York/Oakland - Barely a month after the first group of protesters set up its encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City, the phrase "We are the 99 …
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13 Americans Among Those Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
Kabul, Afghanistan — At least 13 American soldiers were among more than 20 people killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked an armored NATO shuttle bus in Kabul …
Does America’s Fortune Ride on Two Numbers? – 9/11 and 99:1
San Francisco— Numerologists and The History Channel, known for its occult versions of world events, will have their heyday with two digits that, when arranged in certain sequence, foretold …
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Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case
(Photo: Spencer Tirey / The New York Times) Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out their national class action lawsuit, lawyers representing women who claimed that …
Papandreou Co-Opted “Revolution” – Now, the Greek People Must Reclaim It
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. (Photo: Prime Minister of Greece / Flickr) Little did the Greek people know when “socialist” prime minister George Papandreou, back in June …
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How the 99 Percent Really Lost Out – in Far Greater Ways Than the Occupy Protesters Imagine
Joanne Kathleen Farrell, a protester from Occupy Albany, waved an American flag on Washington Avenue, which borders Academy Park near the state Capitol, in Albany, New York, October 26, …
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Elders a (Labor) Force for Social Change
We’re a nation that will soon have more older people than young ones, and much of the popular media portrays this as a disaster story that goes something like …
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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 …