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The Fight to Keep Toxic Mining – and the World Bank – Out of El Salvador
Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm's shakedown of one of Central America's poorest countries.
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Stanford Promises Not to Use Google Money for Privacy Research
Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to only use the money for non-privacy research. Academics …
Syrians in the Golan Heights Stuck Between Sectarian War and Unjust Occupation
Syrians in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights hear the constant shelling of the civil war that divides their community while living through the decades-old Israeli occupation that dominates daily life.
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Meet the Activist Group That’s Making Student Loan Debt Disappear
Initiatives like the Rolling Jubilee are meant to inspire and enlighten by making us question the system of debt.
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From One North Carolina Prison, Reports of an Eight-Month Lockdown
We have been on lockdown since December 28, 2013, and enough is enough.
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Tens of Thousands of Wisconsin Students Face New Voting Hurdles
Until the 7th Circuit's decision last week, out-of-state students had little reason to spend the time and money to obtain a Wisconsin ID card.
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New Yorkers Call Lyme Disease the New Plague
Celebrities like Howard Stern and Daryl Hall speak out, while Lyme patients crippled by the disease took to the streets in front of The New York Times, to call …
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Obama’s New Jobs Plan Helps Veterans and the Environment
The Obama administration has revealed a new jobs initiative that teaches Americans how to install solar energy panels. Better still, the initiative will specifically target veterans.
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Kochs, ALEC Threaten Campus Democracy at Florida State, US Universities
A battle has been raging at Florida State University to stop what student and faculty say is “[a] hostile political takeover of the presidential search process.”
Call to Close “Deplorable” Private Migrant Jail Made, as Expansion Planned
Immigrant justice groups are raising alarms about conditions in existing and planned migrant jails holding children.