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Jackson Rising: People Power and the New Cooperative Movement
A conference in Jackson drew about 500 participants, with the goal “to educate and mobilize the people of Jackson to meet the economic and sustainability needs of their community.”
Class War: Thailand’s Military Coup
Outnumbered by the country's rural voters, Thailand's once vibrantly democratic urban middle class has embraced an elitist, antidemocratic agenda.
The New York Times’ New Editor Buries Important Story on Private Equity Fee Shenanigans on Holiday Weekend
Anyone in the political or public relations game knows that the best way to make a disclosure but minimize its impact is to do so on day before the …
Activists Working to Transform LA County Sheriffs Hope Changes Will Apply for the Entire Country
Los Angeles activists' vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff's Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.
The Rights of Journalists in Decline Around the Globe
While the name makes it seem like a great idea, in reality the Journalist Shield Law poses a threat to free journalism in the States.
Mexico and Monsanto: Taking Precaution in the Face of Genetic Contamination
Studies have found the presence of transgenes in native maize in nearly half of Mexico's states.
Let Them Eat Carbon: Like Big Tobacco, Big Energy Targets the Developing World for Future Profits
As concern over climate change begins to lower the demand for fossil fuels in the US and Europe, fossil fuel companies are accelerating their sales to developing nations, where …
EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “Escape Route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban
Documents reveal that the health commission of the European Union is attempting to develop a procedural “escape route” to evade an upcoming EU-wide ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides.
Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Care Who’s Going to Congress, and That’s a Bad Thing
A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the …
Caribbean Reparations Initiative Inspires a Revitalization of US Movement
An intellectual paradigm shift in the Caribbean and in other parts of the African diaspora is revitalizing the reparations campaign that must become a critical component of the human …