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Broad Coalition Calls for a New Model of Trade
550+ groups reject fast-track trade promotion authority in letter to Senator Wyden.
DA Joins the Climate Activists He Declined to Prosecute, Citing Danger of Global Warming
Days after they were to square off in court, the DA and the activists now say they plan to march together in the upcoming People's Climate March in New …
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Build It and Bikes Will Come
If cities wish to encourage citizens to be more active and cut down on driving, they must remember that if they build it, we will come.
Small Island Country Attempts to Hold the Hegemon to Its Promises
The Marshall Islands' lawsuits against the United States and other nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are a bold attempt to keep all of us safe from …
The Climate Change Defense? Citing Global Warming, DA Drops Charges Against Anti-Coal Activists
In a surprise move, District Attorney Sam Sutter of Bristol, Massachusetts, has dropped criminal charges against two climate activists who were set to go on trial Monday for blocking …
We’re All a Little Bit “Tree Hugging” by Default
We're all facing environmental degradation and the adverse affects of climate change.
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The Case That Could Decide Keystone XL
The fact that the governor would gamble with the state's irreplaceable natural resources, and its vital agricultural industry, on the promise of a handful of jobs shows just how …
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Louisiana’s St. Tammany Parish Comes One Step Closer to Fracking
The Department of Louisiana Natural Resources has approved a unit permit for Helis Oil & Gas Company for a site in St. Tammany Parish that the company plans to …
Dark Money Corruption of Democracy Forces Climate Change Direct Action and Mass Mobilization
Seventeen critical years after the Kyoto Protocol signing, climate activists have come to realize that when our governments are bought and sold, policy shifts must begin in the streets.
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Accidental Hero: Marcuse’s “One-Dimensional Man” at 50
It is now 50 years after “One-Dimensional Man” became an unlikely central text of the '60s New Left. Its message remains ever more urgent.