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Michael Pollan: From GMOs to NYC’s Soda Ban, Local Efforts Challenge Agri-Giants’ National Control
From Californiau2019s Proposition 37 initiative to New York Cityu2019s soda ban, journalist and best-selling author Michael Pollan argues that local efforts hold the key to challenging the agricultural industryu2019s …
Angela Davis and Assata Shakur’s Lawyer Denounce FBI’s Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorists List
One day after the exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur became the first woman named to the FBIu2019s Most Wanted Terrorists list, weu2019re joined by another legendary African-American activist, …
And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth
“What if the story of our times is this: And then there was one planet, and it was going down,” writes Tom Englehardt.
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How Little Has Changed
How little has changed: Some excerpts of writings on the capitalism of the 19th and early 20th Centuries – excerpted from my book, a work still in progress, Let's …
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April 27th is the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) – Extraordinary Harlem-Based Intellectual and Activist
Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927) is one of the truly important figures of early twentieth-century America. A brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist, he was described by the …
Maine Becomes the 13th State to Formally Reject Citizens United and Call for Campaign Finance Reform
Momentum to free elections from corporate influence is growing. This afternoon, Maine became the 13th state to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling …
NYPD on Trail: Week Six
After six weeks of testimony — sometimes dramatic, sometimes data-driven, but consistently disturbing in its findings — the plaintiffs in the historic Floyd v. City of New York trial …
USA is #1 …in Jailing Its Population
This video is an excerpt from the documentary, American Autumn: an Occudoc — rent it or own it today. Go here. The question of whether persons convicted of a …
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The Series of Tubes: Spying for Everyone!
Most weeks there's more Internet-related news than people can handle. Given the constant flux, we at Free Press are taking a stab at listing, every week, the top five …
Changing Perspectives on US-Mexico Relations
Tom Barry writes on the important questions that still go unanswered in the ongoing debate between Mexico and the US.