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CreativeResistance.org: Art Brings Joy And Clarity to the People-Powered Movement
CreativeResistance.org, a project of PopularResistance.org, launched this week. If you love art, music and poetry and appreciate the work of activist artists; if you grapple with the challenges of …
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Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture
What is necessary is a “systematic redesign of how we get our staple food crops,” Shepard says.
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Intelligence Gathering and the Threat It Poses to Free Press
National Security's conflation of whistleblowing and terrorism, as evident in the latest Snowden revelations, is further evidence of danger to freedom of the press, says Julian Assange's lawyer.
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Modeling the Education They Want To Be: The Great Chicago Teachers Union Transformation
Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.
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Pussy Riot Is Free, Yay! Now What?
Masha Gessen's “Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot” tells the essential backstory to the Pussy Riot phenomenon in a way that "rescues these women from this …
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Omar and the Checkpoint
Many speak of Israel's checkpoints dotting the occupied territories, but few truly appreciate the real experience of living life imprisoned between checkpoints, by being held hostage to the temperament …
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Spying on Activists: New Document Shows Army Targeted Olympia Anarchists, War Protesters
A criminal intelligence analyst for the Army infiltrated activists in Olympia to gather intelligence, which he shared with police, the FBI and a fusion centeru00a0in Washington.
Planning for the Future of the BDS Movement
There is a growing sense that the boycott power of civil society, particularly as it is manifesting itself in Europe, is on track to repeat history.
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Where Is Your Car Location Data Going?
It recently became clear that car makers and navigation companies use them to collect data related to drivers' location and movement, and store them for an unspecified period of …
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Peter Seeger’s Last Letter
It is a testament to Seeger's struggle, tenacity and final emergence into redemption that his vision decades ago holds just as true today.