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Largest Private Prison Firm Objects to Resolution to Fund Rehabilitative, Reentry Programs
CCA filed a formal objection with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking to exclude the resolution from its 2015 proxy materials distributed to shareholders.
As Frac Sand Mining Expands, Community Activists Face Off Against Companies
It is up to Wisconsin communities to fight off powerful interests in frac sand mining.
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Human Rights Campaign Under Fire in LGBT Community
Queer groups call foul on the largest LGBT nonprofit, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), for glorifying corporations the groups consider to be downright dirty.
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Smoke and Mirrors Will Not Save Us From Anthropogenic Climate Disruption
Six years ago, scientists said we need a huge cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2015. Now what?
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Let’s Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power
“Building power together” means working together as a movement of movements to build on the progress of 2014 when people created a larger and bolder movement.
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A Flat-Footed Backflip for Wall Street
Congress gave its bankster buddies an overly generous holiday gift.
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Behind New Jersey’s Tobacco Bond Bailout, A Hedge Fund’s $100 Million Payday
When New Jersey bailed out some of its tobacco bonds, the state gave up $400 million in future revenues to pocket $92 million immediately.
The New Conquistadors Making Their Presence Felt at COP20 in Peru
Corporations causing social and environmental destruction in the Andes and Amazon are driving climate change, whilst enjoying influential seats at the climate-negotiating table.
Predictions Based on the 2015 Federal Budget
The ultimate conclusion we can draw from this “bipartisan” process is that there is no sense of national interest, and damn little sense of community, in the American political …
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In Black Lives Matter Protest, Corporate Rights Trump Free Speech
For decades, courts have struggled with how to protect free speech in public forums that have grown increasingly privatized.