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Statement on Murray’s $15/Hr Executive Order for City Employees
Mayor Murray has made an executive order to begin the process of making $15/hour the minimum wage for all city workers.
Don’t Tell Me to Eat a Burger
Rather than helping others be healthy and happy, this harassment results in dissatisfaction, depression, and disorders.
Is the US Government Behind the Carnage in Iraq?
Reports of the bombings attribute guilt and ascribe motives for these mass killings despite the fact that no group has claimed responsibility for these attacks.
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NAFTA: 20 Years of Regret for Mexico
Mexico's growth has been weak since the ‘free trade’ deal was signed, and it missed out on the region's poverty reduction.
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University Bans on Student Protests Threaten Freedom of Expression
Universities on both sides of the Atlantic have taken steps to curtail, if not to outright ban, students from protesting.
NAFTA at 20: Lori Wallach on US Job Losses, Record Income Inequality, Mass Displacement in Mexico
Democracy Now! speaks to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and author of the new report, “NAFTA at 20.”
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Will New York City Lead the Way on Pre-K?
The outlook for Mayor de Blasiou2019s signature initiative just got a whole lot brighter.
By Pushing the TPP, Obama Is Repeating the Mistakes of NAFTA
David Bacon: Obama's push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership demonstrates his 2008 campaign pledge to oppose NAFTA-style free trade agreements was just lip service.
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Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: US Must Ensure Safety Upon Release for Guantánamo Prisoners
For many prisoners, release does not equate with freedom and can be the beginning of new misadventure, further persecution and incarceration.
2014: The Year Everything Changed
The foundation of the current phase is massive public education and building support in all segments of the population for the values of the movement.