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Border Patrol Agent Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Mexican Teenager
Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.
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Mayan People's Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when Congress repealed legislation protecting Monsanto's GMO plant varieties in the Central American country.
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Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction
Housing activists who were protesting the eviction of families took to the roofs Wednesday as enforcement officers used battering rams in an operation to remove them from housing estate.
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Reversing the Tide: Cities and Countries Are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, and Winning
From movements in Bolivia and Uruguay to voter rebellions in Nigeria, Holland, Italy, France and Ireland, citizens worldwide are demanding the return of their water to public hands.
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"Journey for Justice" From Selma to DC, Ends With Demand to Restore the Voting Rights Act
Clad in yellow shirts, hundreds of people streamed across the Arlington Memorial Bridge on September 15 and ended their nearly 1,000-mile trip at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters – And Their Message – Are Key to Bernie's Campaign
Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.
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The Movement Lives On: 4 Years Later, Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of Its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.
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Tent City Overtakes Moldovan Capital As 20,000 Protest Bank Fraud and Corruption
In addition to calling for a bank probe into a scheme that wiped out $1.5 billion from three national banks, protesters are demanding the resignation of the president as anger over corruption in the impoverished country hits a boiling point.
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Our Small Texas Town Banned Fracking — Then Big Oil Stepped In to Change the Laws
Known as HB 40, the rule pushed by oil and gas companies declares the state of Texas can preempt any health or safety regulations written by local governments if the industry doesn't deem them “commercially reasonable.”
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Apples and Googles Beware: A Labor Uprising Is Brewing In Inequality Valley
Unions are spreading like wildfire through the tech capital's low-wage workforce.
