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Activists Fight to Hold Exxon Mobil Accountable in Valdez Oil Spill (Part One)
(Photo courtesy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council) Rick Steiner is currently in the middle of a legal battle with Exxon Mobil Corp. over the …
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Congressional Democrats Seek to Curb Tough State Voter-Screening Laws
Washington - Democrats on Thursday ratcheted up efforts to combat new voting laws adopted by 13 states that Democrats contend are deliberate efforts to keep its core voting blocs …
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650,000 Americans Joined Credit Unions Last Month – More Than in All of 2010 Combined
One of the tactics the 99 Percenters are using to take back the country from the 1 percent is to move their money from big banks to credit unions, …
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Greek Leader Calls Off Referendum on Bailout Plan
Athens - After a tumultuous day of political gamesmanship, Prime Minister George Papandreou called off his plan to hold a referendum on Greece’s new loan deal with the European …
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Protest Changes Austerity Debate
A Simchat Torah celebration earlier this month at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York. (Photo: Michael Kirby Smith / The New York Times) I visited …
Unity Is Strength for Progressives
Business and liberal elites have long invested in developing collaborative leadership. In Occupy Wall Street and beyond, grassroots progressives are now getting into the game of working together. …
Few Stimulus-Financed Energy Projects Were “Shovel Ready“
The Recovery Act infused $35 billion and grand expectations to the Department of Energy – but the reality has been far more sober, the department’s inspector general said …
Insurers Want Obama to Defy Law So They Can Continue Keeping You in the Dark
If you have no idea what you're paying good money for when you enroll in a health insurance plan, there's a good reason for that: insurers profit from your …
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Vehicle-to-Grid: A New Spin on Car Payments
Willett Kempton is an anthropologist. And an electrical engineer. On this winter morning at the University of Delaware, both skill sets come in handy as he courts …
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In the Last 30 Years, College Tuition Tripled
A new report from Demos looking at The Economic State of Young America shows that “average [higher education] tuition is three times higher today than in 1980.” “Average tuition …