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Northwest Tribes Band Together to Stop Oil-by-Rail
Coastal tribes share tactics and resources to bring fossil fuel transport to a halt.
How Utah Coal Interests Helped Push a Secret Plan to Export Coal From California
Companies and investors are trying to survive a collapsing US coal market.
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The Far Right Proposals in the 2016 Republican Party Platform
What Trump, a GOP Congress and GOP-appointed Supreme Court would do to the US.
Fighting for Seats at the Table: A Poor People’s Movement in a Rustbelt Town
The Newark Think Tank on Poverty is recreating democracy to help the poor take charge of their lives.
Former Guantánamo Prisoners Convicted in Belgium
Years after release, former Guantanamo prisoners are tenuously linked to current conflicts to justify illegal and disproportionate responses to them.
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Feminism Slowly Gaining Support at United Nations
Achieving gender equality has long been one of the United Nations' top priorities, yet the word feminism has only recently begun to find its way into speeches at UN …
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Former Cleanup Workers Blame Illnesses on Toxic Coal Ash Exposures
Dozens of lawsuits are pending as a result of a 2008 dam collapse in Tennessee.
RNC Protesters “Wall Off Trump” and Confront Police Violence
Protesters erected a "wall" with banners outside the RNC, and kept systemic police violence in the spotlight even as a sea of police flooded the streets around them.
Young Black Protesters Blockade Police Facilities Across the Country
The movement for Black lives raged on in the streets with young Black people shutting down and disrupting police facilities in multiple cities on Wednesday.
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Mike Pence May Be a Friend to Trump, but He’s No Friend to Workers
Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence should have workers worried.