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New Toxic Sludge PR and Lobbying Effort Gets Underway
A trade association known for using the terms "compost," "organic," and "biosolids" to describe sewage sludge is investing in a new public relations campaign to influence policymakers and the …
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Nine Strategies to End Corporate Rule
The last few years have seen a series of corporate catastrophes, for which the perpetrator companies have escaped any meaningful accountability. Big banks and giant Wall Street firms tricked …
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Reclaiming Our Rights From HR 347
With increasing velocity, since the advent of the post-Second World War national security state, then gaining speed with the incessant search and destroy mission waged on the U.S. Constitution …
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To Break the Bonds of Injustice
New York - Forty-six years ago, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on migratory labour, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy listened in disgust as California's Kern County Sheriff explained the arrests …
Can Europe’s Left Rebound?
Washington - A crisis of capitalism is supposed to create an opening for the political left. But in Europe, the place where the concept of left and right was …
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“Librotraficantes” Bring Banned Books into Arizona
Phoenix - Tony Diaz, aka “El Librotraficante” (or book smuggler) is arriving in Tucson on Friday with a truckload of Mexican-American books that were effectively banned from the Tucson …
Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …
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Historical Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers Today
(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …
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Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice
Protesters march on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The moral principle …
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