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Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Kelly Wiedemer, an information technology operations analyst who said she was told she would be a “hard sell” because she had been out of work for more than six …
Lost, Abused and Neglected for a Profit
Guillermo Gomez-Sanchez is a 50-year-old legal resident with a mental disability. In 2004, Gomez was detained because of a dispute at a grocery store over a bag of tomatoes. …
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In Paraguay a Familiar Story is Playing Out
In Paraguay, the Ayoreo people are fighting for their very survival. These indigenous people are struggling to save their ancestral home in the Chaco region from cattle companies, farmers …
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Wall Street Goes to School
If real reform is going to happen, it has to put in place a viable, critical, formative culture that supports notions of social and engaged citizenship, civic courage, public …
From Attica to Pelican Bay
Forty years ago, on September 9th, 1971, prisoners protesting medieval conditions rebelled at Attica, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York. Four days later the state launched a violent …
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United Automobile Workers Reach Tentative Agreement With General Motors
Detroit - The United Automobile Workers and General Motors said late Friday that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract.
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Less Work, More Living
(Photo: Richard Yuan / Flickr)
Middle-Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28 Percent of Americans Fall Out of Middle Class
Middle-Class Americans Often Fall Down Economic Ladder: Study – nearly a third of Americans who were part of the middle class have fallen out of it
Throw the Bums Out
Grover Norquist, president of a taxpayer advocacy group, Americans for Tax Reform, speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) With recent polls announcing the …
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Georgia Rally to Save Troy Davis Marches for Justice
Demonstrators at a rally for Troy Davis. (Photo: T. Lynne Pixley / The New York Times) Atlanta - As Troy Davis faces his fourth execution date, the …