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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy the Neighborhoods
The Occupy movement has done something amazing, getting Americans to start questioning our economic divides. It's created spaces for people to come together, voice their discontents and dreams, creatively …
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Don’t Buy Into Generational Warfare: Keep the Super Committee Accountable to the 99 Percent
The 12-member Super Committee is down to its final two weeks to produce a plan to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the federal budget. According to recent reports, …
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Scientist Who Testified in Support of Mining Around the Grand Canyon Stands to Make $225,000 From It
As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Republican members of Congress have been waging a war to open 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon to uranium mining. Last week Secretary of …
“Corporations Are Not People”: Activists Push Amendment to Revoke “Corporate Personhood“
After an Election Day that saw a number of wins for progressive causes nationwide, activists opposed to “corporate personhood” — the notion that corporations have equal rights to individuals …
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Foreign Influence: Inappropriate for Lawmakers Tasked With Shrinking the Deficit
In his presidential farewell address, George Washington offered this warning to the young nation: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence…the jealousy of a free people ought to be …
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Next After the Ohio Victory: Run for America
Yesterday, Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to revoke basic worker rights, delivering a stunning rebuke to conservative Gov. John Kasich. That spark was lit in Madison, Wisconsin last …
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Matt Taibbi on Russia, Wall Street and Prosecuting Corporate Crime
As a kid, Matt Taibbi’s favorite writer was Nikolai Gogol. So, straight out of college, Taibbi headed to Russia, where he spent ten years playing baseball in …
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Across the Country, Voters Reject Right-Wing Extremists
While San Francisco elections were largely anti-climactic, across the country voters rejected en masse the right-wing Tea Party politics that have plagued national politics. Nowhere was it more obvious …
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Don’t Just Salute Veterans, Rally With Them
Here's a surprise that the power elites really hate to see: Many members of the 1 percent are joining the “We are the 99 percent” movement in various Occupy …