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Organized Resistance
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Shell's 20-Year Infamy: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Resistance
Two decades after Saro-Wiwa's murder, a Nigerian activist describes the struggle that put justice at the center of environmentalism when the Ogoni People demanded a share of oil wealth from Shell.
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Global Opposition Is Mounting Against the Latest Environmental Abuse – Deep Sea Mining
Seabed mining could have the largest areal impact on the planet of any human activity, akin to deforestation on a massive scale.
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Only People Power Can Save the Planet
People on the ground in communities across the nation are standing up to big energy, corrupt government and extreme extraction – and they are having an impact.
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Today This Major City May Become the First to Have Publicly-Financed Elections
The Honest Elections Seattle initiative allows citizens to spend no more than $100 in "Democracy vouchers" on any given election.
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Anonymous Vows To Unhood 1,000 Ku Klux Klan Members
The hacktivist collective says it will release the identities around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.
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Iceland Sentences 26 Bankers to a Combined 74 Years In Prison
In a move that would make many capitalists’ head explode if it ever happened here, Iceland recently sentenced their 26th banker to prison for their part in the 2008 financial collapse.
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First Greece, Then Spain, Now Portugal: Leftists Vow To Topple New Government
Portugal appeared headed for months of political uncertainty – even crisis – on Monday after the main opposition Socialists and their allies pledged to bring down the country’s new minority government as early as next week.
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The Frack Rebellion Is Now: Breaking the Law In Order To Uphold It
These activists are waging a war against a corporate state that is deaf and blind to the rights of its citizens and the imperative to protect the ecosystem – and they're being monitored, demonized and criminalized in the process.
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A Unifying, Mass Movement Grows Against Austerity In Manchester and Across UK
Privatization of Britain's National Health Service has soared by 500% in the past year – one reason that tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets voicing outrage about Tory government policies.
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TTIP Revolt: Why 250K Berliners Mobilized Against the Mega U.S.-EU Trade Deal
Fears in Europe about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership mirror Americans’ anxieties about the TPP – and there is vociferous opposition to the deal in Germany.
