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Chicago Teachers Launch Strike for Better Pay, Benefits and Work Conditions
The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.

Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Weighs in on the Organic Food Debate
Stein addresses a recent Stanford study which found that organic foods aren't any more nutritious than conventional foods.

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Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution
This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems …

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Merchant of Climate Doubt Hosts the Hottest Parties at the DNC
The planet is burning, but the hot parties have only just begun here in Charlotte at the DNC.

Fact-Checking the Democratic Party Platform
In the key areas of bank regulation, law enforcement, labor, trade policy, climate change and civil liberties, there is more than a little difference between the Obama administration's record …

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End of Summer News Puts Nuclear Renaissance on Permanent Vacation
“There is no nuclear renaissance,” says writer Gregg Levine. With a new decision shutting down the construction of a nuclear reactor in Maryland, America needs start thinking beyond nuclear …

Waste More, Want More: America Throws Out Good Food
We are throwing away away up to 40% of our food, the research finds.

Adaptation to the Climate Crisis: That Was Easy
Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, admitted recently that global warming is not a hoax, but that we needn't worry.

Seven Blockaders Arrested in Livingston Lockdown
Four activists were locked to the pipe-carrying truck Tuesday up until the point of their arrest.

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Uprising in Montana: Activists Take a Stand Against Coal Exports
It didnu2019t really matter though: Hundreds converged from across the country for the Coal Export Action and 23 participated in five days of civil disobedience in protest of the …