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Meet the Welfare Queens of the 1%: The Moochers Mitt Missed Work for the Pentagon
There is no dispute about the status of major Pentagon contractors, their utter dependency on government, and their outsized profiteering.
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Chicago Teachers, Verizon Workers and Quebec’s Students Prove That Resistance Works
Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.
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Unresolved OPD Shooting of Black Teenager Alan Blueford Illustrates Oakland’s Continuing Crisis of Governance
After seeking justice from the City of Oakland for months, the family of Alan Blueford finally caught the attention of city leaders on September 18 when their protest brought …
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The Master’s Radical Political Critique
The Master, the latest movie from director Paul Thomas Anderson, initially seems to miss the mark after aiming high, but it nonetheless gets under your skin! A few days …
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Life After Facebook: Real Connection Takes Work, and It’s Worth It
Writer Hunter S. Thompson was a pro at weird. But he would find Facebook beyond weird. Even as tiny green tree frogs scampered around the edge of his tequila …
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State of the Movement: Lessons Learned From One Year of Occupy Wall Street
Here are some of the lessons I've learned as an activist since the birth of the Occupy Wall Street movement on Sept 17, 2011.
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All Eyes on Ohio
It seems likely that this election will be decided in the industrial Midwest, Ohio in particular - a region that has bounced back strongly economically.
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A Voting Issue That Isn’t
When Michelle Obama called voting rights “the movement of our era” in a speech Saturday night, she didn't specifically mention the Republican-led crusade for restrictive voter identification laws.
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Zombie Functionalism and the Return of Neo-Instrumentality in Education
For decades now, the debate in America over education has swerved back and forth between student testing, teacher accountability, standards, competitiveness and what curriculum should contain.
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The New Violence
A protester is detained by police during demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, September 17, 2012. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The …