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Seattle Wins $15 Minimum Wage – Will Your Town Be Next?
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
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US Education System Not Helping Immigrant Parents
Immigrant parents in the United States face serious challenges accessing early elementary programmes for their children.
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Protest Outside White House to Free the Cuban Five
Hundreds gathered outside the White House Saturday to demand the immediate release of the remaining Cuban Five who have been held in US prisons for more than 16 years.
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Talking Cows Take on Factory Farms – Matrix Style
The viral success of “The Meatrix” shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
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Indian Legislators Wake Up to Climate Change
All across India, warning signs indicate that the country is on a dangerous trajectory.
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What We Owe Nigeria’s Kidnapped Schoolgirls
Rather than issuing a blank check for military intervention, we need to stay focused on the girls and their well-being, now and into the future.
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Another Reason to Rein in Big Banks: Student Loan Shenanigans
High interest rates and more than $1.2 trillion of student loan debt are not the only challenges facing the 40 million Americans with student loans.
Truthout Interviews Joshua Cutler on Lyme Disease and the IDSA
Lyme disease sufferer and activist Joshua Cutler talks about the personal and institutional challenges facing chronic Lyme disease sufferers dues to the Infectious Diseases Society of America's failure to …
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What’s Gender Got to Do With Policing and Prison?
For decades, incarcerated mothers have fought for their right to parent behind bars.
The Specter of Authoritarianism and the Future of the Left: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
The commanding institutions of society are now in the hands of powerful corporate interests whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, says Henry A. Giroux.