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Transforming a Movement: The Importance of Black Leadership in Immigrant Rights
Black immigrant leaders are steadily changing the narrative and the faces of the immigrant rights movement.
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Replacing Predatory Lenders With Community Finance in Oakland
Charging excessive amounts of money for the availability of credit or loans ruins communities.
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Can Teamsters Save the Right to Retire?
Over 2,000 retirees and Teamsters from 20 states rallied in front of the capitol to stop their pensions from being slashed.
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Time to Grow Up Into a Living Earth Economy
Earth is our household and we must learn to live as responsible contributing members.
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If Not Now, When? Young Jews Refuse to Stay Silent on the Occupation This Passover
Young American Jewish activists are calling for an end to American Jewish support for the Israeli occupation.
Celebrating Indigenous Resistance: An Essay for Earth Day
The conservation movement cannot succeed without recognizing and respecting sacred places, traditional ecological knowledge and indigenous rights.
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Activists Mobilize for Twenty-Three Days for Ramarley Graham
A new campaign by the family of Ramarley Graham calls for holding the officers involved in the unarmed teen's death accountable.
Meet the Jeans-Wearing, Nature-Loving Nuns Who Helped Stop a Kentucky Pipeline
As fewer women enter the convent, what will become of Kentucky's tradition of socially and environmentally engaged religious women?
Is Capitalism Destroying Feminism? An Interview With Dawn Foster
If you're elite, you feel a lot closer to very very elite and wealthy people, not necessarily a migrant domestic worker who shares your gender.
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How Sanders Could Lay the Foundation for a Third US Political Party
A new, independently financed political party could make Bernie Sanders' call for “political revolution” more than a dream.