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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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The Other 1%: Healing the Wounds Of Native American Tragedies On Turtle Island
Issues of police brutality – like the July killing of Paul Castaway near Denver – are opening the public's eyes to the continuing struggles of Native Americans and other groups unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
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How Movements Decide: Formal Consensus and Its Discontents
One of the main attributes of Formal Consensus is the intention to be non-adversarial – to ignore the traditional “us vs. them” paradigm that has increasingly paralyzed politics – but in many cases it hasn't worked.
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The Green Alternative: Prez Candidate Jill Stein On What It Will Take To Win In 2016
"The public is really hungry for a politics of integrity – and that’s what we’ve got and they don't."
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Beyond Ag-Gag: One North Carolina Law Is Bringing the War on Whistleblowers to A New Level
No longer just targeting animal rights activists, the Property Protection Act outlaws exposing abuse at elder care facilities, day cares and charter schools – revealing the power of ALEC-backed legislation at the state level.
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Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent
While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress is a victory for civil liberties advocates, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.
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Why a Death Sentence for Mohamed Morsi Signals the End of the Arab Spring
The timing of Morsi's death sentence couldn’t have been better for Egyptian authorities – since the U.S. news media that week was focused on another high profile death sentence, that of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
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Solutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work
New York City is home to the country’s largest worker-owned co-op, Co-operative Home Care Associates, which employs some 2,300 workers, mainly immigrant and minority women in the South Bronx.
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Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings
As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.
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“Acts of Passion”: What This Washington Post Investigation Tells Us About Fatal Police Shootings
The Post’s analysis doesn't confirm that race was a factor in dozens of shootings, but the fact that more than 75% of the officers involved were white, and two-thirds of the victims were minorities, leads observers to believe race played a factor.
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Greece's Other Story: Golden Dawn and the Dangerous Rise of Europe's Far Right
Continued austerity policies, especially in Europe’s poorer countries, could leave those left behind looking for scapegoats – a situation that history teaches us never ends well.
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Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
