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Environment
From the Chilean Winter to the Maple Spring Solidarity: the Student Movements in Chile and Québec
For both of these movements to move forward, it is important to not only promote informal acts and statements of solidarity between the two movements, but to begin establishing …
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Coal Industry Pays Fake Activists $50 to Wear Pro-Coal Shirts at Public Hearing
Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers to wear pro-coal t-shirts at an EPA hearing.
This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
Throughout the US, Native, Chicano, and other peoples are rejecting industrialized agriculture and are growing their own food instead, thereby reclaiming the health of their traditions, culture, bodies, and …
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Amazon Indians Can Be Saved
May 2012 marks the twentieth birthday of Brazil’s Yanomami Park. It’s the largest area of protected rainforest in the world; it’s also the best reply to critics who say …
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Securing the Nation’s Power Grid
To avert future costly blackouts, the United States must modernize its energy system.
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War at What Cost? A Veteran Perspective
This coming fiscal year, the United States is set to spend more than $640 billion dollars on the Pentagon and war, accounting for more than 60 percent of federal …
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A New Role for the ILO in the World Economy
Poised to elect a new director general, the International Labor Organization needs to challenge the pro-austerity consensus.
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The Environment Is Dead: Long Live Mother Nature
Raffi Cavoukian: The movement to protect and restore Earth's living splendor needs rebranding.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Economy Could Be Headed for a “Fiscal Cliff,” and More
In today's On the News segment: the economy could be headed for a “fiscal cliff,” hundreds of thousands of people in Quebec protested austerity cuts to education and tuition …
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Congress Isn’t Just Stalemated, It’s Broken, Experts Say
Today, almost everything on Capitol Hill is taken hostage in the partisan war. Thereu2019s no single easy explanation, but there are several.