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Hunger in America, By the Numbers
(Photo: mdavidford / Flickr) Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to …

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Foreclosed Homeowners Re-Occupy Their Homes
San Francisco – Carolyn Gage was evicted from her foreclosed home in January. Earlier this month, she moved back in. “I’ve been in here for 50 years. …

Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power (2)
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Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power
How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from "the outrage phase" to the "hope phase," and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we …

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White House Urges Egypt’s Military to Yield Power
Cairo - The White House on Friday threw its weight behind Egypt’s resurgent protest movement, urging for the first time the handover of power by the interim military rulers …

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NYPD Raid on Occupy’s Zuccotti Park Camp Destroyed Thousands of Books
NEW YORK — What started in September as a few piles of books on a tarp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the de facto headquarters of the Occupy Wall Street …

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New Documentary Tracks Cultural Genocide of American Indians
Walter Littlemoon speaks to students at Colorado State University. (Photo courtesy Mike Kalush, The Rocky Mountain Collegian / The Thick Dark Fog) In 1892, US Army …

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What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey on?
(Photo: Cyndy Sims Parr / Flickr) So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported …

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California Company Pulls Plug on Wind Farm, Citing Risk to Birds (2)
(Photo: kqedquest / Flickr) A San Francisco company said it has abandoned plans for a large-scale wind farm near Winters because the turbines could have harmed golden …

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Yemeni Leader Signs a Deal to End His 33-Year Rule
SANA, Yemen — After months of street protests calling for his resignation, President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed an agreement Wednesday that Yemeni officials said immediately transferred power to his …