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Occupy Offshoot Cancels $4 Million in Predatory Student Loans – and Starts a Debtors Union
“Rolling Jubilee is a fantastic way to punch through the illusion that you actually owe what the 1 percent thinks you owe,” said Thomas Gokey, a Rolling Jubilee co-founder …
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UN Report: Human-Caused Climate Disruption Is “Severe, Pervasive, Irreversible“
A recently released draft report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that anthropogenic climate disruption is fully upon us, and will dramatically worsen unless something is …
Education With a Debt Sentence: For-Profit Colleges as American Dream Crushers and Factories of Debt
Over the last three decades, the price of a year of college has increased by more than 1,200 percent.
Can a “Firewall Strategy” Keep Big Energy Out of Climate Talks? It Worked for Fighting Tobacco
Kicking the polluters out of the negotiations may sound like wishful thinking. But there is a precedent: the global effort to regulate the tobacco industry.
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At New York March, Activists Work to Connect Capitalist Culprits to Climate Crisis
At the largest climate march in history, activists made a point to tie climate disruption to those seen as most responsible - major corporations and governments.
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Imagining Our Dark and Stormy Future: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything“
If you generally avoid reading about climate change (out of paralysis, fear or grief), read Naomi Klein's “This Changes Everything.”
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The Mysteries of Inequality Are Only Mysterious to Elites
The government openly acts to ensure that wages don't rise.
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Attacking J Street Won’t Bring Justice for Palestinians
Take issue with J Street, which supported strikes on Gaza, but any plausible vision for a future progressive victory includes J Street in the winner's circle.
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Fascism 101: The Police and Media Control
Students of the profession of policing in St. Louis are invited to a seminar on how to “WIN WITH THE MEDIA!”
Most Members of the Black Caucus Have Supported Police Militarization
Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford says their voting record on this issue shows that only a few members act in the interest of the black community.