Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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Could The Civil Rights Movement Have Happened In Today's Militarized Police State?
Can peacefully exercising First Amendment rights create lasting change if police have weaponry and, apparently, legal authority to immediately and violently disperse crowds?
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Ferguson’s Citizen Journalists Reveal the Value of Filming the Police
Until police stop treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy.
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Edward Snowden, The Most Wanted Man in the World
"I’m an engineer, not a politician. I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
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This September 17, Rolling Jubilee Will Buy Back – And Abolish – Student Debt
This time, it’s different.
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Protesters Defy Martial Law-Like Crackdown In Ferguson
"We have a right to assemble, a right to freedom. But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable."
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Now Is Critical Moment To Kill Widely Unpopular Global Trade Agreements
The opposition is global and growing louder – which is why we're poised to halt attempts by corporations and governments to push through these mega-deals for multinationals.
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Walmart's Bangladeshi Workers End 11-Day Hunger Strike And Receive Back Pay
1,600 workers in five clothing factories, most of them women earning less than $70 a month, had been on hunger strike since July 28.
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Intercontinental Cry Marks A Decade On Front Lines of Global Indigenous Movement
A decade ago, there were 50 Indigenous Nations leading their own struggles. Now there are 500.
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People's Climate March In September: An Invitation To Change Everything
In the run-up to the People's Climate March in New York City on Sept. 20-21 – slated to be the largest climate march in U.S. history – the Climate Convergence will draw thousands from across the world.
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New York Sex Trade Filling with In-Debt Graduates and "Average Everyday Women"
With an Ivy League education, Anna is currently paying off $47,000 in student debt – an amount that would be much higher, she says, if she hadn't had the supplemental income sex work provides.