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Organized Resistance
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Hey Students: Damn The Debt! Lessons and Tactics From Past Debt Resistance Movements
The student debt strike isn't the first time debt resistance movements have taken hold across the U.S. – and the lessons we learn from prior movements can well be applied to today.
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How Worker Co-ops are Moving Beyond Capitalism
From Detroit to Madison to New York City, labor organizers, civic leader and other activists are getting behind worker co-ops in a big way.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons
Former inmates have joined human rights advocates to organize nationwide demonstrations targeting everything from private phone-and-money-transfer companies to prison food vendors.
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Student Debt Cancellation: The Hidden Tax Trap That Will Cripple America's Families
Under current federal tax rules, if student debts are cancelled, millions of families will get blindsided by a staggering tax bill on those debts – making it "out of the frying pan, into the fire" for cash-strapped families.
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The Quixotic Rise of Russell Brand
When Fox News hosts decided to attack Russell Brand's "Newsnight" appearance, they all but released the genie.
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Youth Leading America's New Civil Rights Movement Explain How to Activate Their Generation
As established progressive organizations and political groups struggle to bring in and engage younger audiences, Rev. William Barber suggests appealing to their desire to do something big for the world that will have a multi-generational impact.
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Crops Rot as Massive Farmworker Strike Continues in Baja California
Some 50,000 mostly indigenous farmworkers have gone on strike in the Mexican border state to demand better pay and working conditions — bringing agricultural production to a standstill since mid-March.
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LA City Council Approves $2.45 Million Deal with Occupy Protesters
The agreement settles all claims involving Occupy L.A. protesters arrested during a violent "shock and awe" clash with Los Angeles police in 2011.
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Reports Show Austerity Is Hitting the UK’s Poorest Regions the Hardest
As wealth inequality deepens in the U.K., recent research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows it’s the most deprived areas – and the poorest households – that are bearing the brunt of incessant austerity policies.
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A Fight for Union Rights Hits Major Hotel Chains In San Francisco
Unionized hotel workers from across the city are demanding the Chesapeake Lodging Trust – which owns Le Meridien and Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf – allow workers to choose whether or not they want to unionize.
