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In Latest Victory, New York's Fast Food Workers Get $15 Minimum Wage
On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Wage Board exercised its power to set the new minimum for the fast food industry's 200,000 workers in the state – without requiring approval of the legislature.
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Can the Student Movement for Free Public Education Win in Chile?
As President Michelle Bachelet sets to implement comprehensive education reform, the movement is in a crucial phase – now students and teachers are ratcheting up pressure with huge protests and an indefinite strike.
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Week-Long Protests Challenge A.L.E.C. As Extreme Right Group Meets In San Diego
Protests, press conferences, teach-ins, rallies and guerrilla theater are sweeping the city as members of the ultra-conservative lobbying organization attend its yearly meeting.
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The Yes Men Are Revolting – This Time It's Personal
The prankster activist duo are back at it again, now directing their comical creative theater at the climate crisis and the earth's worst offenders.
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"Here We Breathe Freedom": Belarus Activists (and Musicians) Go to Poland to Be Political
Banned from giving concerts in his native Belarus, rocker Lavon Volski crossed over into neighboring Poland last weekend to play at the annual Basowiszcza festival, where underground bands play free from fear of arrest.
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Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby: I Owe My Success to "Warrior Women"
“For me, as a young black woman, to run against an older white male incumbent, powerful, with the ability to raise close to a million dollars, the skeptics wanted to know: how could I have the audacity?”
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Solutions Remain In Greece: Nationalize the Banks, Turn the Credit Spigots Back On
Greece could provide an inspiring model of sustainable prosperity for the world – but it's being strangled by a hegemonic power in a financial war that is being waged against us all.
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Anti-Fossil Fuel Protests Sweep New York and Vermont
On the anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic crude oil disaster, activists staged protests last week aimed at stopping the transportation and use of fossil fuels, and scored arrests in the process.
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Greece's "No" Reveals A Young European Generation Fed Up With the E.U.
It's not just Greece – this is largely the same demographic that backed the “yes” movement for Scottish independence from the U.K., and which supports the Podemos party in Spain.
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Spaniards Escalate Protests Against New Gag Law Outlawing Public Dissent
The day before the new law went into effect last week, thousands of people protested in over 30 Spanish cities, saying the gag rule will severely restrict democratic freedoms of speech and peaceful assembly.
