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Organized Resistance
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How to Stop an Oil Train: The Hearts-and-Minds Climate Defense That Won Over a Courtroom
The Delta 5 loss was actually a big win as climate activists were found not guilty of blocking a train and guilty only of trespass in the second degree, and sentences were issued with no jail time.
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Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Orwell failed to anticipate the role pleasure would play in our culture of surveillance.
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Bursary Or Bust: Thousands of Student Nurses and Midwives Take To U.K. Streets Over Cuts
Starting in August of next year, the Tories plan to scrap vital funds for student nurses in training, who instead will be forced to take out loans that leave them saddled with debt.
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A New Era of Global Protest Begins
In line with the steady rise in social unrest over the past decade, it’s likely that we will witness an unprecedented escalation in large-scale citizen protests across the globe in 2016 and beyond.
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Fast-Food Workers Launch Wave Of Strikes For 2016 Primaries
Fast-food workers announced Friday that an unprecedented wave of strikes and actions calling for $15 and union rights will hit this primary season to hammer home to candidates that the nearly 64 million Americans paid less than $15 an hour are a voting
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Climate Protests In 10 U.S. Cities Call For Tougher Clean Power Plan
Environmental justice leaders from communities hardest-hit by climate change will converge Jan. 19 on regional EPA headquarters to denounce the mining, fracking, burning and dumping of waste threatening U.S. towns and cities.
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Junior Doctors In Britain Launch Nationwide Strike Opposing Changes To Pay and Conditions
Unionized doctors across the U.K. have committed to strike today, providing emergency care only as they challenge government healthcare in a way unseen since the 1948 introduction of Britain's National Health Service.
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Detroit Teachers’ Rolling Strikes Shut Down More Than 60 Schools
The protest, which entered its second week on Monday, is being organized by a group of activists called Detroit Teachers Fight Back who say they seek to "shed light on unsafe and subpar learning conditions and demand resolution."
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Arrest Michigan Governor Rick Snyder: An Open Letter from Michael Moore
To poison all the children in an historic American city like Flint is no small feat – even international terrorist organizations haven't figured out yet how to do something on a magnitude like this.
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Thousands of Hong Kong Protesters gather to demand release of booksellers
Five Hong Kong booksellers have vanished since October and many suspect they were abducted by Chinese security forces because of books critical of China.
