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It’s College Students vs. the Corporate Machine – and the Machine’s Winning
Richard Eskow: The college revolution is everybody's revolution.
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Why We Strike – Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: J. Baridi Williamson
J. Baridi Williamson: We strike for freedom, justice and humyn rights against prolonged isolation and torture in US-California solitary confinement prisons, facilities, units, cell dungeons across this nation's mass …
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Travesty in “Post-Racial” America: the Zimmerman Verdict
Black America and people of good will of all races watched in utter dismay as the jury in the George Zimmerman Trial issued its verdict of not guilty in …
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Occupy National Gathering Proves OWS Is Still Alive!
The US Occupy movement is still alive and well in many cities and small communities across the nation. Despite the lack of mainstream corporate news coverage of their activities, …
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Abortion Rights Are At a Crossroads: This is NOT a Time to Lay Low – It is Time for Massive Uncompromising Struggle!
Across the country, people are waking up to the state of emergency facing the right to abortion. As legislators in Texas pass legislation that will close down 37 of …
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On the Zimmerman Verdict: Sympathy for the Devil
Since the acquittal of George Zimmerman Saturday for the death of Trayvon Martin, there have been thousands of tweets, dozens of blogs. Some are relieved by the verdict; others …
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Peaceful Revolution? Gandhi’s Four Paths to Get There
The Indian leader saw nonviolence as an active and powerful thingu2014not just the absence of war.
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Liberty is Hunted Around the Globe
Despite the outpouring of support from the American people, Edward Snowden continues to be hunted down by the Obama Administration as a traitor.
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Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assembly
The legal system has been grotesquely deformed in most cities to, in essence, shut public space to protesters.
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Prisons, State Budgets and the New National Freedom Agenda
As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.