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Congresswoman Lois Capps Calls for Offshore Fracking Moratorium
As the oil industry amps up its campaign to expand fracking (hydraulic fracturing) in California, a prominent California Congresswoman is calling for a moratorium on offshore fracking in federal …
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Finally, Hollywood Discovers the Drama in Everyday Poverty
Some movies offer an escape from reality. Sunlight, Jr. is the rare film that can awaken us to it.
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Struggles of Younger US Workers Ripple Through Economy
The high amount of students living with their parents has caused a sharp decline in the growth of new households in the US.
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A Pope’s Pointed Message
In a surprising new text by Pope Francis on the role of the Catholic church in society, we are charged to close the massive gap of inequality in this …
Israel-Palestine: Enough Negotiations Already!
Palestinians should not lend their name to a charade of endless negotiations while historic Palestine disappears.
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Courageous Boeing Workers Say No to Corporate Extortion
By rejecting a contract that amounted to corporate extortion, the Machinists Local 751 at Boeing have taken a stand for middle-class workers all over the country.
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Cop’s History an Issue in Toy-Gun Slaying
A Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff, who shot and killed a popular Latino eighth-grader holding a toy gun, has a history of overreaction that dates back years.
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Labor As Seen from Down Under: Fair Wages and Decent Benefits Profit Everyone
The idea that workers have to be beaten down at every turn just doesn't add up, as industrial experience Down Under shows every day of the year.
Memory and Repression in El Salvador
While many countries of Latin America rescue the memories of victims of human rights abuses through public trials, in El Salvador, repression of alternative narratives intensifies.
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Military Commissions Stuck on Torture
From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people made little progress as the …