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Chiapas’ Coffee Growers: Accidental Environmentalists
Antonio, the Majomut cooperative supervisor, shows off the coffee plants. The cooperative purchases coffee from member-landowners, pays them fair trade prices, then ships then beans to overseas. (Photo: Kristian …
Thanks to the 99 Percent Movement, Media Finally Covering Jobs Crisis and Marginalizing Deficit Hysteria
Part of the reason economic policymakers have failed to properly address the poor economy is because the nation’s news media has not properly covered the unemployment crisis. For example, …
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Rick Perry Event Pastor Predicts Coming “Prison Camps” for Jews
According to Kansas City-based International House of Prayer founder and evangelist Mike Bickle–who played a major role in the August 6th “The Response” prayer event that served as the …
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Goldman Loss Offers a Bad Omen for Wall Street
Goldman Sachs, once Wall Street’s highest flier, has been grounded, and it does not bode well for the rest of the financial industry or the New York City economy …
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Higher Taxes on the Working Poor and Middle Class? Why Conservatives Have Lost Their Minds, And the Public
Over the weekend, NYTimes.com featured a Bloggingheads.tv discussion I had with Kristen Soltis of the Independent Women's Forum about the conservative response to the “We Are The 99%” mantra …
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Latinos Said to Bear Weight of a Deportation Program
A deportation program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy has led disproportionately to the removal of Latino immigrants and to arrests by immigration authorities of …
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Activists in New York Target “Governor 1 Percent”: Cuomo Under Fire for Refusing to Extend Millionaire’s Tax
“Where is Cuomo? Protecting the 1 percent!” That was the chant outside the Skylight SoHo according to Democracy Now! reporter Ryan Devereaux, who accompanied a group of …
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Framing Occupy Wall Street
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement celebrate one month of occupying Zuccotti Park in New York, on October 17, 2011. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times) …
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Seventy Thousand Greek Workers Launch New Anti-Austerity Strike
Athens - Tens of thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday at the start of a two-day general strike to protest a new round austerity measures …
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It’s Time to Compensate the Victims: Looking Back at Vietnam and Agent Orange
A mother and her child who was affected by his parent's exposure to the chemical, Agent Orange. (Photo: Brendan Wilcox) Fifty years ago, while President Kennedy deliberated …