The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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In Wake of Anti-Choice Senate Vote, Argentines Join Movement to Abandon Catholic Church
"Obtaining the vote for women, the divorce law, marriage equality, the gender identity law, the assisted human fertilization law, the law of integral sexual education, the dignified death law were all done fighting clerical power, which seeks to have total dominion over our minds and bodies."
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Monsanto Has to Pay $289 Million in Damages in First Roundup Cancer Trial
Jurors awarded former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $39 million for his losses and $250 million to punish the company after it failed to warn of Roundup’s risks.
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Supreme Court Says Kids Can Sue Trump Over Climate Change
The high court called the breadth of the lawsuit “striking.”
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Domestic Workers in Seattle Win Most Comprehensive Bill of Rights in the U.S.
The ordinance establishes protections for the city’s more than 30,000 nannies, caregivers and housekeepers, who have historically been excluded from labor laws.
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Intensifying Support for Corbynism As Tory Government Crumbles
The rally atmosphere in the small, rural north west town of Hayfield is testament to Britons' rising discontent with neoliberal policies as PM Theresa May's Tory alliance falters and a leftist Corbynism is in ascent.
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From Freedom Summer to Parkland: How Change Comes to America
The results of the Road for Change and other student movements burgeoning across the country this summer have yet to be seen – but November isn't far off.
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In Trump, Brexit and the Transatlantic Game of Chicken, Public Is Divided
"There is no longer a significant majority in parliament in favor of any Brexit outcome. And in this case, public opinion seems to reflect parliamentary opinion: the public is divided, too.”
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Baltimore Sues 26 Fossil Fuels Companies Over Climate Change
The city’s waterfront revitalization has become a model for urban development, but sea level rise and extreme weather are putting its future at risk.
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Rebel Cities 9: Iceland's Slow-Burning Digital Democratic Revolution
Icelanders to their credit have twice peacefully ousted governments, they are world leaders in transparency laws and digital freedom, and they decided not to bail out its failed banks.
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As Finance Capital Pushes Back, Public Banking Must Build and Take Power
To succeed, the public banking movement needs to be more than a good idea. We need supporters to number in the tens of thousands – for if there is not unyielding public demand, there will be no public bank.
