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Environment
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Why Ordinary Citizens Have No Say
The US could be at the forefront of creating a global green economy that runs on renewable energy. Unfortunately, we can't beat our addiction to big money.
Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap From Wall Street to Main Street
Award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi is out with an explosive new book that asks why the vast majority of white-collar criminals have avoided prison since the financial crisis began.
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A Primer on the Antiunion Campaign at Volkswagen
Given the dizzying array of antiunion forces that were involved in the campaign to undermine workers' choice to form a union at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, a who's who of …
Decriminalization vs. Legalization
As Maryland is poised to become the next state to decriminalize marijuana, MD Delegate Keiffer Jackson Mitchell and LEAP Executive Director Neill Franklin debate whether it can end the …
California Senate Committee Approves Fracking Moratorium Bill
The legislation will place a moratorium on fracking and well stimulation until the state fully studies the impact of the oil extraction on California's air and water quality, public …
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Social Change: We Are the Problem We Are Seeking to Solve
Social change movements want to fix a world dominated by exploitative relationships. Most social change theory aims at fixing particular systems, practices, toolkits, etc. Theory that works from the …
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ANR Pipeline: Introducing TransCanada’s Keystone XL for Fracking
Another TransCanada-proposed pipeline with a similar function as Keystone XL is flying under the public radar, but this pipeline would bring to market shale gas obtained via fracking.
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Tiny House Living, Off the Grid? Here’s How to Do It in Style
A growing movement of tiny housers and tiny house villages is taking the simplicity, sustainability and freedom of tiny houses to the next level by building their tiny homes …
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Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.
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Social Movement and Electoral Movements, Not One or the Other
Both social movements and electoral movements are imperative for nonviolent social change and should work together, says Green Party member Michael Trudeau.