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LA and Occupy LA Agree: It’s Time to End Corporate Personhood
On December 3, just two days before Occupy L.A. was evicted by police, the General Assembly of the occupation passed a unanimous resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to …
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Corporate Tax Dodging Has Cost States More Than $42 Billion in Revenue Over the Last Three Years
ThinkProgress has documented the repeated tax dodging of large corporations, some of which, like GE, have gone entire years without paying taxes despite hauling in massive profits. Now, that …
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Unemployed Confront Congress at Take Back the Capitol
Today thousands of unemployed people and others came to D.C. to tell Congress and “K Street” that they need jobs not cuts; that we should tax the rich, and …
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Obama Appeals for a New Commitment to a Fair America
Osawatomie, Kansas - President Barack Obama cast the national debate and developing 2012 presidential campaign Tuesday as a battle between two visions of the economy, government and society. …
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Blagojevich Sentenced to Fourteen Years in Prison
Chicago - Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for 18 felony corruption convictions, including trying to sell …
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Sebelius Overrules FDA Decision to Widen Access to Morning-After Pill
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, at a briefing at the Health and Human Services Department in Washington, on May 27, 2010. (Photo: Luke Sharrett …
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Koch Political Group Brags About Bullying GOP Lawmakers Into Denying Climate Science
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In its cover story this week, the National Journal explores a curious phenomenon: while the science supporting climate change has only gotten …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: President Obama Denounces “Trickle-Down Economics,” and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news…
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Bank of America Takes Occupy Foreclosure Actions Seriously, Warns Employees “We Need to Be Prepared“
Today, the Occupy Wall Street movement is taking part in a series of actions they’ve called “Occupy Our Homes,” aimed at preventing foreclosures and protecting those still struggling to …
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Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan to Replace Immigrant Workers With Prisoners
ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created …