The burgeoning pro-democracy, anti-Trump movement known as 50501 expects to drive tens and possibly hundreds of thousands to protest in 1,000 cities and towns on Saturday.
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Strike Debt abolished $15m of people's debt
Strike Debt - an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street Movement - launched a project to buy up debt belonging to ordinary Americans and abolish it so that they never have to pay it back.
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Grand Theft Rockaway: Money Vs. Hospitals
One year after Hurricane Sandy hit, public healthcare in the Rockaways is in some ways even more dire than it was during the storm. Peninsula Hospital, one of only two remaining hospitals, was shut down in April 2012 and the last one, St.
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Video: McDonald's Joins the Socialist Revolution
McDonald's believes that in an economy where labor no longer can meet basic human needs, it is the government's responsibility to support its citizens.
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"Ag-Gag" Laws Criminalize Whistleblowers Who Expose Factory Farm Abuse
"Ag-gag” laws seek to silence people who reveal what goes on behind factory farm closed doors, labeling them "eco-terrorists."
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Last Hours: A Final Wakeup Call For Humanity
This 10-minute film describes a terrifying science-based scenario where runaway climate change is triggered by massive releases of methane from melting arctic ice, northern tundra and vast undersea clathrate pools.
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"Four Days in Chicago" Looks At Police Crackdown at NATO Protests
Haskell Wexler takes an up-close look at four dramatic days of politics, protest and police, in May of last year, as a military-style security force suppressed Americans' constitutional right to protest.
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A Film About the Fed, Funded by the Mortgage Crisis
As millions of Americans invested in new homes in the mid 2000's, filmmaker Jim Bruce was already investing in the housing market's implosion.
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World Class Warfare: Will There Be Blood?
A war is being waged against the American people by the super rich. And it is escalating.
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Millennial Video: I Forgot My Phone, or How to Reawaken to Reality
What is life without our devices?
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Taking Over, Taking Back: Breaking Doors Down to Open Homes Up
The short documentary by filmmakers Jessica Murphy and Elissa Nadworny highlights the work of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, a coalition of homeowners, renters and houseless people organizing to take over vacant, bank-owned houses.
