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Fast Food Workers’ Movement: Union 2.0
With the support of America's second largest union SEIU, the fast food workers' $15 wage movement has grown, and this unorganized workforce of the past is shaping up to …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Are Blocking the Pentagon From Taking Action on Climate Change, and More
Republicans in the House of Representatives are not only denying climate science - they're actually blocking the Pentagon from taking any action on it, and more.
Meet the Organizer Who Pulled Off the “Gap Does More” Hoax
A small online organizing group threw punches at one of the United States' largest corporations in an effort to change the international labor practices of the Gap.
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
Brazil’s World Cup 2014: Private Security “Made in the USA“
Security has become a market in itself, and only those who can pay have access to it.
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.
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Covert US Military Training Goes to Africa
We have a poor record of even knowing who the people we train are.
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A Radical Seed Grows in Jackson, Mississippi
In many ways, Jackson, Mississippi, is the ideal place for an economic justice movement to begin because the problems are so dire.
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Police Target Black Children
All across the country black children as young as kindergarteners have been hand cuffed and arrested as if they are adults.
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Woman Gives Birth in Solitary Confinement as Jailers Ignore Cries for Help
Nicole Guerrero's experience was downright horrific.