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How a Community Bill of Rights Is Empowering People Against Corporations
The public interest law firm Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has coined the term “Community Bill of Rights,” setting standards at the municipal and county levels to privilege environment and health over corporate profit.
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Two Secret Trade Agreements Threaten to Undo Our Last Shreds of Food Safety
You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don’t meet even basic U.S. food safety standards.
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Keystone XL Activists Labeled Possible Eco-Terrorists By TransCanada
Documents show that TransCanada, owner of the hotly contested Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has colluded with an FBI/DHS Fusion Center in Nebraska, labeling non-violent activists as possible candidates for "terrorism" charges.
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Taksim Square Occupation: Not a Turkish Spring, But the New Young Turks
The movement so rudely shattered this week is reminiscent of a group credited with laying the groundwork for modern Turkey.
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Occupy Gezi Through the Eyes of an Occupy Wall Street Organizer
"There was the beautiful solidarity and unity I felt in Zuccotti Park, but also the righteous anger and intensity fueled by police violence that was evident in Tahrir Square," said Justin Wedes, who attended the Istanbul protests.
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Appeals Court Rules Farmers Cannot Sue Monsanto — If Monsanto Cannot Sue Them
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that organic and non-GMO farmers and seed company plaintiffs cannot bring a lawsuit against Monsanto, because the biotech giant has committed to not suing them.
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial.
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Stop Watching Us: New Petition Website Demands Congressional Investigation of NSA Surveillance
A coalition of 85 technology companies, organizations and privacy advocates launched a website Tuesday calling for a special congressional committee to investigate the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program.
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Protesters Stampede to Flee Crackdown in Turkey
Tuesday evening, police suddenly moved in on protestors in Taksim Square, the heart of the Istanbul protests, spraying tear gas and causing a stampede as clouds of tear gas wafted through the air and demonstrators buckled in pain.
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"Boundless Informant" Revealed: The NSA's Secret Tool to Track Global Surveillance Data
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.