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Organized Resistance
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Disabled Activists Occupy Parliament As UK Government Looks "White and Rattled"
The high-profile protest is against the U.K. government’s latest assault on the disabled – which features plans to cut £30 per week from Personal Independence Payments.
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Three Times When the World Broke Open – and Two When It Might Again
Social change is seldom as incremental or predictable as many insiders suggest — by turning issues considered both unrealistic and politically inconvenient into matters that can no longer be ignored, they champion the impractical.
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Organizing Power: Fight for $15 To Join Chicago Teachers Union In April 1 Strike
This Friday will be the first time fast-food workers strike at the same time as teachers, as the Fight for $15 movement teams up with the Chicago Teachers Union in a one-day walk-out.
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Bracing For A Brexit: Could Contradictory Positions On E.U. Spark A Progressive U.K. Movement?
With Eurosceptic Conservatives on one side of the debate and an international consortium of bankers led by Goldman Sachs on the other, where will the British people come down on the June 23 referendum to remain in, or leave, the E.U.
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The New Generation Gap
Three realities – social injustice on an unprecedented scale, massive inequities, and a loss of trust in elites – define our political moment, among young people more than anyone.
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Frances Moore Lappé: Why I’m Facing Arrest to Get Money Out of Politics
To raise awareness about the corruption of our political system, thousands have pledged to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience during Democracy Spring, happening April 2-11 between Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
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Senate Rejects GMO Anti-Labeling Bill Handing Huge Victory To Consumers
Had the legislation passed Wednesday, it would have preempted states from enacting their own GMO labeling requirements – and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was "pleased that Congress stood up to the demands of Monsanto."
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UK Is At Bottom Of O.E.C.D. In Healthcare – But Leaders Still Deny Austerity Is to Blame
Public discontentment with the National Health Service rose in 2014 more sharply than in any other year on record – and Britain now ranks 28th out of 30 among developed countries in terms of the quality of its healthcare.
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Students Mobilized In Seattle To Win Free Bus Passes, But Fight Still Continues
A group of fed-up students at Rainier Beach High School initiated, advocated and passed a $1 million proposal to cover free ORCA cards across the Seattle Public Schools district.
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How Wall Street Caused a Water Crisis in America’s Cities
Vulnerable residents are paying the price for dangerous financial deals.
