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(Un)occupy Albuquerque Connects Corporate Greed to Fight for Native Land
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The 99 percent movement that’s swept the country has reached Albuquerque, New Mexico. But organizers there have decided to alter the “Occupy” …
Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it …
CIA Kidnapped, Tortured “the Wrong Guy,” Says Former Agency Operative Glenn Carle
Former CIA Operative Glenn Carle. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA's clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn …
“The Savage City” Revisits Notorious Crimes to Reveal Biased Policing
(Photo: Tim Musson / Flickr) Probably few of the Americans who heard Martin Luther King preach his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the …
Occupy the Mortgage Lenders
Washington, DC – Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and …
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“Occupy Obama” Could Turn Up Heat on the Democrats
President Barack Obama is no longer running unchallenged in all the major primary states, thanks to activists in Iowa who are focusing their Occupy Wall Street activism onto the …
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Secure Communities Silences Domestic Violence Victims
For years, Yan endured brutal beatings and repeated rapes at the hands of her husband. An undocumented immigrant from Asia, she never called the police out of fear that …
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How to Make Banks Really Mad: Occupy Foreclosures
Could the next step after camping in Zuccotti Park be camping out in homes facing foreclosure?
“It Should Be Like This Everywhere”: The Free Economy of Liberty Plaza Park
Demonstrators are served lunch at the makeshift food center at the Occupy Wall Street protest. (Photo: Robert Caplin / The New York Times) "The process is the …