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NSA Whistleblower: USA Freedom Act Will Not Go Far Enough to Protect Civil Liberties
Former NSA intelligence analyst and whistleblower Kirk Wiebe says that the NSA has lived a mostly unconstitutional existence, and that any oversight will require an independent group to have …
Maryland Protestors Rally to Repeal Citizens United
Facing congressional deadlock, state lawmakers and advocates push for the repeal of Citizens United and limits to corporate spending.
The Day We Fight Back: Activism Sweeps the Internet with Global Action Against Mass Surveillance
Today privacy advocates are holding one of their biggest online actions so far with “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.”
Laura Flanders | The 1% Should Be Afraid: The New Norm in the Workplace Is Unstable
Barbara Garson, author most recently of “Down the Up Escalator,” talks about the unsustainable inequality we are spiraling into as capitalists forget they need redistribution to save their own …
Chris Hedges: Capitalism’s Sacrifice Zones, Collapse and the Antidote to Defeatism
Chris Hedges spoke with RT's Abby Martin on “Breaking the Set” about the forces driving the acceleration of global decline.
Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
Elaine's work re-imagines risk prevention beyond prepping: the meaningful steps that communities, organizations and governments should take long before the first sirens go off.
Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil
Bill Moyers talks with Bill McKibben, an activist who has dedicated his life to saving the planet from environmental collapse, about his hopes that Americans will collectively pressure Obama …
Tapering of Quantitative Easing Is Throwing Emerging Markets Into Chaos – and Big Banks Are Getting Richer
Despite no real economic recovery, the Fed is winding down quantitative easing, throwing developing countries' economies into chaos.
Declaring Victory Wherever We Can: An Interview With Cynthia Kaufman on Getting Past Capitalism
Cynthia Kaufman: “We desperately need to find alternatives, and in fact we are surrounded by them.”
How Arts and Organizing Helped Defeat Alabama’s Anti-Immigration Law
While much of the media coverage has focused on the work of large legal aid groups, I saw firsthand the power and impact that community and arts organizing played …