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Stanford Divests: Student-Led Movement Forces Elite School to Pull Its Money From Coal Companies
Stanford University's Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to stop investing in coal-mining companies because of climate change concerns.
Foretelling Devastating Impact, Will White House Climate Report Spark Action on Global Warming?
A new report warns human-driven climate change is having dramatic health, ecological and financial impacts across the US.
Guilty Verdict for Occupy Activist an “Attack on Dissent”
Attorney Kevin Zeese discusses how the judge hearing Cecily McMillan's case did not allow the defense to show images which would have proven that the activist was reacting to …
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Cecily McMillan: The Latest Butterfly on the Wheel
Power will not hesitate to use your identity against you if it can. The police violence to which Cecily McMillan was subjected was explicitly gendered, and in this she …
“Back to the Grassroots”: Building a Movement for Sexual and Economic Rights
LBT activist leader Anne Lim gives an interview about her work in the Philippines.
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Oh What a Tangled Web We Freeze
Censorship can be accomplished in so many ways. There's the iron-fisted, potboiler/spy thriller of a Putin way. Or there's the smarmy, ice cold fingers clenching wads of cash American …
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When Corporate America Gets Too Big to Tax
This elephant in the room is too big to fail, jail or pay its fair share.
Progressive Activism Seen as Key to Democratic Turnout in Midterm Elections
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus see activism and organization as key to Democratic turnout in the midterms, but activists are looking for a politics that puts people and …
Homeless Forced From Market Street
San Francisco upgraded its power washing of Market Street sidewalks from twice a month to 20 times per month, a rate increasingly hard on the street's homeless population.