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Despite Federal Ban, Vermont Legalizes Hemp — Effective Immediately
Lawmakers in Vermont have pushed for the nullification of the federal ban on marijuana’s cannabis cousin: hemp.
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650,000 Demand Obama Bans Fracking on Public Lands
A coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations delivered to President Obama nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban fracking on public lands.
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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 2
This second in a three-part series looks at the development of participatory, fun-tivism, resilience, networked post-syndicate, and collective intelligence micro-utopias in Spain.
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Graeber: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Huge swaths of people spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound, yet no one talks about it.
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Not Too Big To Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street's Worst Nightmare
The former New York Governor, now running for New York City comptroller, has the sort of creative thinking needed if we the people are to take back our power from Wall Street and the corporatocracy.
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Protect Journalists and Whistleblowers: Amend or Repeal the Espionage Act
To treat government employees or contractors who leak classified information to the media in the public interest as foreign spies is a deep stain on our democracy. And it's high time to permanently remove this stain.
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The Case for $15 and a Union for Low Wage Workers
It would be a good business decision for McDonald's and all the other leading fast-food chains to announce that they're doubling workers' pay, because those workers make it possible for such restaurants to remain profitable and successful.
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Spain's Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 1
In this first of a three-part series, we offer a personal inventory of 15M’s prototypes by talking about processes and innovative actions, from method micro-utopia to urban, communications, feminine and collective culture micro-utopias.
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Move to Amend: On the Path to Getting Money Out of Politics
Since 2010, over 300,000 have signed a petition and nearly 500 municipal resolutions and citizen initiatives have passed calling on state and federal governments to adopt an amendment ending corporate “personhood” and “money as speech.”
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Grow Heathrow: A London Eco-Village Is Creating Energy and Food Alternatives
To the west of London, next to Europe's largest airport, a visit to Grow Heathrow shows an eco-village bustling with organic alternatives as U.K. squatters meanwhile block the airport's expansion.
