Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Dear Democratic Party: It's Time to Stop Rigging the Primaries
If Democrats want any hope of voting Trump out, they must fix the broken primary system before the next election.
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Rebel Cities 6: How Jackson, Mississippi Is Making the Economy Work for the People
Through participatory democracy and building counter-power, Jackson is organizing, and co-designing, an escape from capitalism and structural racism.
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From Iowa to Oklahoma to Louisiana, States Seek Harsher Penalties for Pipeline Protesters
The bills drafted by the powerful and ultra-conservative American Legislation Exchange Council would translate into harsh fines and jail sentences for those who trespass or damage any pipeline construction.
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Germany's Metalworkers Win the 28-Hour Workweek, and Industry Takes Notice
"It shows this cultural change – that people are interested in a better work-life balance and no longer in just more money," said economist Carsten Brzeski.
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Why the Only Answer is to Break Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks
If the Fed's latest proposal to water down the Volcker Rule goes through, we’ll be nearly back to where we were before the crash of 2008.
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Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op
When employees make decisions and advocate for themselves, good things happen – like, when the business is profitable, they share in those profits rather than see the money doled out to shareholders.
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Blackstone, BlackRock, or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work
California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008.
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Is the Postal Banking Movement Being Too Careful to Succeed?
Failure of imagination at the top undermines hard work at the grassroots. Because at the end of the day, a people’s banking system strikes bipartisan terror in the hearts of the elites.
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U.S. Government Targets Journalists As Real Terrorist "Incel" Threat Grows
It was difficult to take this movement seriously until they, too, discovered that vans could be rented affordably and plowed into crowds of pedestrians. Like Isis, Incel is radicalizing disenchanted, lonely, frustrated young men.
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Yanis Varoufakis’s Vision For A More Democratic Europe
Varoufakis’s reform proposals, put forward via his new pan-European movement, DiEM25, are wide-ranging and admirable. He hopes to see something like a United States of Europe emerge out of the EU’s existing structure.
