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Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill …
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A Country of Inmates
Washington - One area where the United States indisputably leads the world is incarceration. The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every …
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Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions on Share Buybacks to Enrich Executives
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of …
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Pull of Family Reshapes US-Cuban Relations
Miami - For two consecutive years, Stephanie Várcia, 11, a sixth grader here, has done something that was unimaginable five years ago. She has spent four weeks in Havana, …
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Bench Strength: Public Art Controversy Brought People Together for a Cause
During my time in Prescott, I had the opportunity to create a community bench as a senior project for Prescott College. I had seen many of these structures in …
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Santorum: “All the People Who Live in the West Bank are Israelis“
In a recorded conversation during a Friday campaign stop in Iowa, former Republican senator Rick Santorum offered a surprisingly hawkish set of foreign policy views (even for Santorum) on …
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Rules of Engagement for Non-Profits and Unions Working with the #Occupy Movement
There has been a great deal of interest by progressive unions, labor federations, community-labor coalitions, and non-profits of many kinds in the rise of the Occupy movement. A lot …
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Obama Must Condemn Egyptian Military
As we watch the Egyptian police and military viciously attack democracy activists on the streets of Cairo, using U.S. weapons, it is outrageous that the Obama Administration has failed …
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Time for Obama to Act to End Police-State Violence Against the Occupiers
The growing number of video clips and photos showing police in Darth Vader-like riot gear assaulting peaceful demonstrators with everything from tear gas and mace to truncheons, point-blank shots …
Seymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused Over Iran’s Nuke Program
While the United States, Britain and Canada are planning to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran’s oil and petrochemical industry today, longtime investigative journalist Seymour Hersh questions …