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How Activists Put Protection of the Internet Back on the National Agenda
Over 3.4 million Internet users took action against the FCC’s proposed rules in recent weeks – grassroots pressure that forced tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon to get off the sidelines.
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In Supersized Revolt, Fast Food Worker Strikes Have Ignited Across The World
As fast food workers struck in 158 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests sprang up in 36 other countries, here's a look back at how the cause grew from a handful of people to a globe-spanning movement.
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Revolving Door: Multi-Millionaire Big Oil Lobbyist Now Running for Virginia Senate
Ed Gillespie, a former White House communications director under George W. Bush, made $3 million in the past year from his consulting firm representing giant lobbying interests like the American Petroleum Institute.
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India’s Resurgent Women Voters Issue "Slap on the Face of Misogyny"
Taking the fight for safety and dignity into their own hands, women expressed a collective voice and registered their demands by turning out in some of the largest numbers ever at the polls.
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Exposing The United States of Secrets
How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
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No More Games: If the Super Rich Won't Pay Taxes, It's Time For Plan B
The wealthiest Americans receive the greatest benefits – and they insult the rest of us by treating their tax responsibility like a game.
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Move Over, D.C: The Minimum Wage Fight Is Going Local Across the Nation
From San Diego and L.A. to cities across the Bay Area, and from South Dakota to Arkansas, policy makers are looking to raise local wage floors, reflecting the growing economic insecurity of working families.
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100 Years On, Why Is Great Britain Trying to Rewrite the Legacy of World War I?
As Britain's Education Secretary remakes the school curriculum to paint English military history in a more favorable light, questions are rising as to the accuracy – or propaganda – that the U.K. government is promoting.
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Tim Geithner and the Wall Street Bailout Hoax
Wall Street banks are now bigger and riskier than ever, no executives were prosecuted for their crimes, and the bailouts did nothing for tens of millions of Americans – and you call that a success?
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GMO Showdown: March Against Monsanto Calls For May 24 Global Action
On Saturday, May 24, millions around the world – with protests already scheduled in over 400 cities and 52 countries – will once again March Against Monsanto calling for a permanent boycott of GMOs.
