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A View of What’s to Come
It is Saturday, September 15, 2012 and I am on a pier overlooking Gangjeong Village, the site of the Jeju Island, South Korea naval base site. Giant tetrapods, each …
Fracking’s Health Calamities Left to Fester
Despite slick PR campaign, fracking is turning huge parts of American into toxic industrial zones.
Citizen’s United (A Poem)
If we kidnapped THEIR children They would find us If we put guns In the hands of those young They would tag them “Child soldiers” But here We prefer …
Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Met with Daily Protests: The American People Will Oppose This Global Corporate Coup
The current round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership ended today. The trade negotiators were met with a week of protest against the largest trade agreement in history.
Election Countdown 2012: Privatization in Chicago Schools Still Threatens Teachers, and More
Mission elapsed time: T + 13 and counting* When I sally forth to seek my pray I help myself in a royal way / I sink a few more …
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Immigrants Are Losing the Policy Fight, but That’s Beside the Point
“The immigrant rights movement, for all its vibrancy and depth, has been losing the policy fight,” says Colorlines reporter Rinku Sen.
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The Job Crisis, the “Unemployable,” and the Fiscal Cliff
With November around the corner, millions of unemployed Americans are looking to the candidates to address job creation, but it seems that neither side truly has the people's interest …
Did Quebec’s Election End the Student Movement?
The election divided students and left the movement with an uncertain future. But the real victory may be in what students learned about their own empowerment.
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Three Ways to Make Your Vote Count in a Money-Soaked Election
Vote the whole ballot and contribute to campaigns... but not just with money.
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Feast of Fools: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy
The country is being asked to vote in November for television commercials.