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Demonstrators Confront Wells Fargo Shareholders
(Photos by David Bacon)On Tuesday, April 24 in San Francisco, thousands of angry homeowners, immigrants, union members, Occupiers and community groups converged on the annual shareholders meeting of Wells …
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Budget Control Act Military Cuts Will Cover the Social Security Shortfall
A key reason that it's relatively easy to scaremonger about predictions regarding Social Security's finances decades in the future is that the language often used to talk about Social …
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The CISPA Scoop: White House Threatens Veto of Cybersecurity Bill Amid Online Protests
The House of Representatives is expected to vote by the end of the week on a controversial cybersecurity bill that has received a veto threat from the White House …
Disabled People Protest to Preserve Their Benefits
Joann Cross didn't travel from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, to get arrested. In fact, she's always believed that getting arrested was the wrong way to make a …
Shedding Light on the Secret Pre-Trial of Bradley Manning
With the threat of life in prison and the ideal of government transparency looming heavily in the background, Pfc. Bradley Manning's hired defense attorney and attorneys representing WikiLeaks founder …
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Could New Argument Against SB1070 Prove Law Is Unconstitutional?
A civil rights lawyers has proposed a new framework for understanding why the Arizona immigration law SB1070 currently making its way through the Supreme Court should be unconstitutional - …
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A Republican Lawmaker’s Staggering Work of Meanness
(Image: Joel Pett, CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate)In general, I'm a numbers and concepts guy, not a feelings guy. When I go after someone like Paul …
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Is US-Afghan Agreement a Prelude to Afghan Civil War?
As we come up on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration is poised to sign a US-Afghan strategic partnership agreement that could …
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Noam Chomsky: Occupy Points to a “Different Way of Living“
Noam Chomsky has seen a lot of social movements. He cut his teeth on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He participated in the …
The Port Huron Statement Today
Paul Buhle and Gary Dumm created this comic for high school students in New York City in connection with a New York University program around the fiftieth anniversary of …