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2013 in Review: Congress Bickers, People Take Action
A "do-nothing" Congress? Whatever. That made 2013 a year for people in neighborhoods to shine.
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Everyday Rebellion: Interview with Filmmakers Arash and Arman Riahi
The Riahi brothers talk about their film, "Everyday Rebellion," their upbringing and the technical activism platforms they are creating.
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To Win Tomorrow, “Undoing Border Imperialism” Is the Book We Need Now
In "Undoing Border Imperialism," author and organizer Harsha Walia gives us cutting-edge analysis of the Canadian immigrant-rights movement No One Is Illegal.
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Climate Protection: The New Insurgency
Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedienceu2014but we can take it further still.
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Could Crowd-Sourced Organic Seed Banks Save Our Agricultural Future?
The world's largest democracy has to do more to beat back the dangers of GMOs, and India's organic seed banks might just be the natural weapon required to defeat …
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Pioneers of Media Diversity
Devorah Heitner's new book, "Black Power TV" describes the pioneering journalists who attempted to provide adequate media representation of African-Americans.
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
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In San Francisco and Oakland, Residents Fight Back Against Tech Giants
Protests against tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook for encouraging eviction, gentrification and displacement in San Francisco's working-class neighborhoods picked up steam with protests on both sides of the …
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The Arc of Justice and the Long Run: Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Rebecca Solnit: The past explodes from time to time, and many events that once seemed to have achieved nothing turn out to do their work slowly.
Wake Up!
Now, before we are engulfed in flames, while there is still time, while we still can.