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This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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ActOut! [247] - Keep Acting Out!
The end of an era – a look back and a look ahead, to work that's been done, and all yet to come. It's been almost five years of Act Out! and while this chapter is ending, this book is far from written.
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Act Out! [241] - The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning - Coal
Caged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human folly; coal scare tactics leading Australia's climate policy and how grassroots climate activists are fighting a massive mining project in the midst of a firestorm.
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Act Out! [240] - How To Fight War Fever, Power Stand-Off + Fire & Water
Updates on bad ass organizers, activists and whistleblowers. Next, what we really need in order to stop the empire and why we can't just lean on letters from the UN. War Fever is high and the propaganda machine is working overtime. Next, water woes in the world's largest fire storm, and what this has to do with an indigenous fight in Canada. Finally, Sunrise El Paso sits down to talk corporate takeovers of public utilities.
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Act Out! - [239] - Best of 2019’s Front Line & Censored Stories
From Iran to Venezuela to the forests of Southern Illinois to the borderlands. It’s been a full year of Acting Out!
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Act Out! - [238] - Chile’s Warning to the World + The Untold Story of Fracking
COP 25 is over and the people have spoken – from Chile to Madrid, largely indigenous-led protests are highlighting the uselessness of these climate summits and the danger of falling for greenwashed false solutions in the age of climate chaos. Next, you've likely heard of fracking, but do you know about frac sand mining? Ted Auch from Frac Tracker takes us into this seldom-discussed world of environmental destruction.
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Act Out! - [237] - What It Pays to Starve the People + German Reflections
There's only so much you can take from someone.
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Act Out! - [236] - Can Whales Save the Humans? + Prepping One Community at a Time
A whale of a deal for the IMF and all those folks out there who wanna keep consuming but want someone else to deal with the fall out. Next up, the whole damn system is guilty as hell – and that's a heavy thought. And while starting the fight—and more so the build—in your own community might seem a small move to make, it may be the most powerful.
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Act Out! - [235] - Why We Consume, Trading in Trash & Setting a Decolonized Table
How to slice through the lies this Thanksgiving, and set the table as it were—for decolonization. Next up, it's not just what we consume, it's our fundamental thinking about consumption that's killing us. Finally, a look at the plastics industry, false solutions and the waste trade—because yes, we trade in trash.
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Act Out! [233] - Chile, Bolivia and AFRICOM: Imperialism, Revolution & What We Must Ask Of Ourselves
Did the French Revolution go too far? And what the hell does that have to do with our place and time?
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Act Out! [232] - Open Wounds, Open Wars: Veterans and the Fight for Our Lives, Against Empire
We need to be open and honest about what the empire means and how we all suffer from it – and how these diverse but shared experiences can be our strength, not our fault lines. As we rattle thrones, we must build solidarity and heal – with veterans. Marine veteran and senior fellow at the center for international policy, Matthew Hoh sits down with us to talk about veteran health, suicide and recent news from the empire.
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President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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President-elect Donald Trump isn’t just appointing incompetent buffoons to his Cabinet, but deeply immoral individuals who are completely lacking in family values.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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The country has never moved as close to the course it took under Benito Mussolini as it is doing now — and even if Meloni is not a neo-fascist politician, she has put herself in a position to appeal to and broaden fascism's political base.
Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
