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Occupy the Capitol: The Next Stage in the Occupy Movement in Washington State
Occupy the Capitol, Olympia, Washington. (Photo: Trevor Griffey) Roughly two thousand people descended upon the Washington state capitol yesterday to expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to …
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Occupy Los Angeles Fights Court Battle to Keep Camp
A civil rights complaint filed by Occupy Los Angeles Monday seeks to keep police from evicting the occupation from its home on the south lawn of City Hall. …
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Occupy Student Debt: Students Urged to Refuse to Pay Off Loans as Schools Hike Tuition
Monday was a day of action for university students on both coasts angered by the rising cost of tuition and the crackdowns on their recent protests. In California, students …
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Banks May Have Illegally Foreclosed on 5,000 Members of the Military
For months, major banks have been dealing with the fallout of the “robo-signing” scandal, following reports that the banks were improperly foreclosing on homeowners and, in many instances, falsifying …
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Voting in Historic Egyptian Elections Enters Second Day
Cairo - Polls opened for a second scheduled day of voting on Tuesday after unexpectedly large crowds of Egyptians defied predictions of bedlam and violence a day earlier to …
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American Airlines Parent Files for Bankruptcy
American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday morning and its chief executive Gerard Arpey has retired. The Fort Worth-based carrier said …
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Thousands March on Washington State Capitol to Protest Budget Cuts
This week, the Washington state legislature is holding a special session to deal with issues related to the state’s budget. Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) has called on the legislature …
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As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest
Don Buckley lost his job driving a Chicago Transit Authority bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers …
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Ai-jen Poo: Organizing Labor – With Love
Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won’t be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning. For …
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Neo-Nazis and “Defensive Democracy“
The weird revelations in Germany this month about a small group of neo-Nazi terrorists who killed at least nine foreigners and survived “underground” for 13 years by knocking over …