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Protests
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Chained CPI Is a Real Cut
Chicago activists delivered a petition from Illinois residents who prefer cutting the Petagon budget to Social Security.
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Weekly Update: Media Looks for Camps, Occupy Joins Popular Resistance
On May Day, the media was looking for encampments and missed how popular resistance is growing and demonstrating all over the US.
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This May Day in Berlin: 7,000 Imported Police, With Marching Routes Exposed
This year, the city government brought in an estimated 7,000 auxiliary officials from across Germany to aid in controlling the May Day protests.
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Immigrant Rights Groups, Labor and Occupy Plan May Day Protests
Nationally, May Day protests have already attracted the attention of authorities.
Sandra Steingraber’s War on Toxic Trespassers
How dangerous chemicals and fracking contaminate our land, our health and the energy debate.
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Drones, Sanctions and the Prison Industrial Complex
Peace activist and anti-drone protester Brian Terrell reports on the struggle of non violent offenders from federal prison.
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Creatures of the Dark: Wisconsin GOP Caught Deleting Records, Again
Thousands of Republican redistricting files in Wisconsin were deleted last year, confirming accusations that they are covering their tracks.
The ‘Organizing Model’ Goes Global
Unions in Europe have been importing the u201corganizing modelu201d from the U.S.
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Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Prisoners’ Own Words
Desperate prisoners refusing food at Guantanamo Bay since the beginning of February have vowed to ‘strike to death,’ according to lawyers' notes obtained by Truthout.
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Nearly Half of Guantanamo Prisoners Now on Hunger Strike
The hunger strike figure rose by 14 prisoners overnight.