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Advocacy & Reforms
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Fighting Inequality In Seattle, Students Lead Protests to Change School and Transit Policies
We want all inequitable policies to be challenged.
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Beirut's "You Stink!" Garbage Protesters Dig In, Calling for Fall of Lebanese Regime
Clashes intensify as protests sparked by the city's garbage problem widen in scope, and the prime minister calls an emergency parliament session.
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Launching "Campaign Zero," Racial Justice Movement Demands Stricter U.S. Policing Laws
Leaders of influential civil rights movement release the most comprehensive set of policy proposals yet calling for federal and state laws to combat police killings.
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Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat
Alexis Tsipras fought the austerity, and the austerity won.
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The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
How the group’s mission went from racial integration to black separatism — and eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police state.
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Explosion In Youth Homelessness Spurs Rise Of Sofa Surfing Across Britain
There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."
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A Fireball Exploded In This Man’s Face, and Now He’s Suing The Fracking Operation
Cody Murray, his father, wife, and four-year-old daughter were all burned by a fireball after methane built up in his pump house and exploded.
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Our Town Dumped the Big Banks, And Yours Should Too
"It is important that we send a message that if you want to do business with local and state governments, you need to play by the rules."
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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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Ferguson Marks Michael Brown Anniversary with Protests – And Silence
Hundreds gathered on the residential side street where Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, was shot dead by a white police officer last August, igniting national unrest and the Black Lives Matter movement.
