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Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power: The Past Battles the Future at Seneca Lake
Crestwood Midstream Partners has been pushing to build gas storage at Seneca Lake, and residents are pushing back.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Rethinking Safety and Disability Justice
We need transformative justice: a community-based approach paired with creative cultural work to shift our narratives around harm.
As Lawmakers Debate Removing Confederate Flag, Meet the Activist Who Took It Down
Bree Newsome took down the Confederate flag herself.
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“Against All Odds”: Raising Iraqi Voices of Grassroots Resistance
Ali Issa's “Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq” is a needed corrective to the absence of Iraqi voices in Western media.
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Connecticut Just Passed a Law Requiring Bosses Who Steal Workers’ Wages to Pay Them Back Double
In protests that continue to ripple across the country, workers have attested to the variety of ways by which they are deprived of their due pay.
Australia Weighs Tax Penalty Attack on Environmental Advocacy Groups
Criticism can be uncomfortable for policy makers but it has a crucial role in science and democracy.
Democracy or Corpocracy? The Rush to Expand the Algonquin Pipeline
The transformation of our democracy into a “corpocracy” is illustrated in the rush to expand the Algonquin pipeline.
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Wall Street and Big Corporations Got What They Wanted, This Time
We the People came close to winning this time. We will come closer and closer, then we will start winning again.
Gen. Lee Butler to Nuclear Abolition Movement: “Don’t Give Up“
Butler discusses his views on how anti-nuclear organizations today can survive and exert influence in a world that often appears apathetic.
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Migrant Farmworkers Ask Ben and Jerry’s to Provide “Milk With Dignity“
Inside the supply chain of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, migrant farmworker Victor Diaz's wages were being illegally withheld last summer.