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This Is No Bailout for Main Street America
(Photo: Taber Andrew Bain / Flickr) Big announcements of breakthrough legislative deals during election campaigns should be taken with huge grains of salt. Generally more rhetoric than …
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Governor Scott Walker to Use Foreclosure Settlement Money to Balance His Budget, Not Help Homeowners
Yesterday, 49 states joined the federal government in announcing a $26 billion settlement with five of the nation’s biggest banks over the banks’ foreclosure fraud abuses. The money from …
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Catholic Hierarchy Demands Corporate Personhood
What do Koch Industries and the Catholic hierarchy have in common? A determination to shift rights away from individuals and assign them to institutions. In their campaign to …
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Teach-Ins Target Arizona’s Mexican American Studies Ban, Organizations Demand Return of Banished Books
From the high plains of Wyoming to the urban centers of Atlanta, Chicago and New York City, hundreds of schools launched a historic teach-in movement today to incorporate lesson …
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Atrazine: A “Molecular Bull in a China Shop“
Atrazine is an herbicide primarily manufactured by the multinational conglomerate Syngenta and commonly used on commodity crops, forests, and golf courses. Its potential harmful effects on human health have …
TUSD Flagrantly Violates Constitution and International Human Rights Treaties
The above quote best contextualizes the battle in Tucson. Mexican American Studies, also known as Chicano/a Studies or Raza Studies, in effect, is the study of peoples who trace …
How to Occupy the Economy, According to Richard Wolff
Occupy Wall Street has changed the conversation about the distribution of wealth, and an economic framework which for decades, has been taken for granted. So what now? What policy …
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Under New Law, France Would No Longer Be Sexual Playground of Men Like Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (Photo: Paul Taggart / The New York Times) Dominique Strauss-Kahn's (DSK) marauding sexual behavior has passed out of the news cycle. However, in the aftermath …
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A Tale of One Activist’s Global Reach, From Pennsylvania to Bucharest
Decebal “John” Bilan. (Photo: Rick Smith / Flickr) On October 12, Decebal Bilan, who went by John while he was in the United States, first visited Occupy …