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Protests
Egypt Under Empire: Dancing Between Dictatorship and Democracy
Real democracy in the Arab world is not in the American interest.
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The Scott Walker Generation
As Wisconsin's union membership dwindles, a new class of protesters rises amid the Scott Walker generation.
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Tunisian Protesters Occupy the Streets as Parliament on Verge of Collapse
Thirty-three months later, thousands of protesters, in the birthplace of the Arab Spring, now seek the ouster of Tunisia's elected Islamist Ennahdha government, which has failed to produce a …
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California Hunger Strikers Enter Third Week, Face Retaliation
On July 8, more than 30,000 prisoners in California refused meals in the third such strike in two years. Prisoners in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, some …
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The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Rebrands Constitutionally Protected Behavior as Terrorism
Sarahjane Blum is lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. She and CCR have appealed the
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
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Tensions Rise as Walmart Refuses to Pay “Living Wage“
As Walmart threatens to take its revenue out of the District, citizens organize to show politicians they serious about raising the minimum wage.
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Understanding the Significance of the Trayvon Martin Protests
Protests too often get construed as violent actions. People can be angry, passionate, and even militant without being violent.
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Why We Strike – Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: J. Baridi Williamson
J. Baridi Williamson: We strike for freedom, justice and humyn rights against prolonged isolation and torture in US-California solitary confinement prisons, facilities, units, cell dungeons across this nation's mass …