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Domestic Workers Convention May Be Landmark
Washington - When governments from around the globe passed a treaty in June to protect domestic workers, labor experts called it a surprising breakthrough for millions of exploited women. …
An Interview With Henry Giroux: Youth Movement in a Culture of Hopelessness
(Photo: Jessica Lehrman / Flickr) A protest encampment near the heart of the United States' financial capital in New York City started out with a few dozen …
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Three Rules for Radicals in an Era of Crisis
(Image: LP / Truthout; Adapted: Pete Kraynak, Naila Jinnah) A Worthy Cause Climate change. Medical costs. Inequality. Time famine. Issues galore. So, how do we …
Occupying Wall Street: What Went Right?
Demonstrators with the Occupy Wall Street protests march from Zucotti Park to Washington Square, in New York, Oct. 8, 2011. The movement has inspired more than 200 Facebook pages …
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The Friendship of Mourning: What America Forgot After 9/11
9/11 Memorial Service, WTC, Lower Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2011. (Photo: _PaulS_) My mother is a hospice worker for a small nonprofit organization in Hammond, Indiana. …
One on One With Rep. Jan Schakowsky: “We Are Not Helpless!“
Rep. Jan Schakowsky. (Photo: davidcharns) Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Illinois) $227 billion jobs bill was more or less dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House. And while she's …
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Secret US Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen
Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, October 2008. (Photo: Muhammad ud-Deen) Washington - The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, …
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Using Ethnic Tensions for Political Games (and Gains): Anti-Roma Protests in Bulgaria
Young protesters walk down Sofia's streets with the banner: “National Revolution: now and until the end.” Protesters support the anti-Roma platforms of nationalist and ultra-nationalist candidates in the upcoming …
We, the 99 Percent, Demand the End of the Wars Now
Demonstrators march near St. Andrews Plaza as part of the protest movement against big business called “Occupy Wall Street,” in New York, Sept. 30, 2011. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / …
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair: Events Like Fukushima Too Rare to Require Immediate Changes
Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, speaks at a House Energy and Commerce Committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 16, 2011. (Photo: Philip Scott …