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AOL’s CEO Is Not the Only One Who Should Be Shamed
Laura Flanders: Not long ago it was the Great Recession, today it's Obamacare that's serving as a convenient scapegoat for employers seeking to tighten the screws on their workers.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Alaska Could Be the Third State To Legalize Recreational Pot, and More
In today's On the News segment: Organizers in Alaska have obtained enough signatures to put recreational marijuana up for a vote this coming August; Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has …
Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry
When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …
Largest Air Pollution Rally in US History Goes Down on Utah’s Capitol Hill
People are literally dropping over dead in the streets along the Wasatch Front from Utah's absolutely debilitating and deadly air pollution crisis.
Not a Hacker or Whistleblower? Here’s How You Can Still Liberate Secret Documents
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them.
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Interlopers on Social Media: Feminism, Women of Color and Oppression
As women of color who identify as feminist and who engage online, we are implicated in this conversation.
Occupy Monsanto Protesters Push Labeling Resolution at Annual Shareholder Meeting
Protesters hoped to make a single powerful statement: Label it.
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State of the Union: Obama’s Underwhelming Plan to Tackle Inequality
Are we living in a land of small opportunity?
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Why the Smartphone Became the Lightsaber of the Environmental Justice Movement
From West Virginia to the Gulf Coast, residents of communities facing environmental problems are discovering that visual storytelling brings results. Their number-one tool is the humble smartphone.
Hawaii’s GMO War Headed to Honolulu and Federal Court
The question facing Hawaiians: Do county governments have the power to regulate the pesticide-laden process of developing genetically engineered seeds?