The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Occupy Wall Street Group Buys $15 Million of Americans' Debt — And Abolishes It
Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group last November, purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills -- mainly medical ones.
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The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
If the story of a human future is not green, there is no future. If we can restructure our world along new understandings of ecology and economics, there is a chance we can salvage something.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Violence Against Brazil Protesters Puts Spotlight on Education as a Constitutional Right
Rio de Janeiro's State Teachers Union gained wide support after 200 teachers were brutally removed from occupying Rio's town hall in October. The teachers have won concessions and are threatening further strikes if more demands aren't met.
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Armed Gun Advocates Intimidate Mothers Against Gun Violence In Texas
Nearly 40 armed men, women and children waited outside a Dallas restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
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Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy
New York City's new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda.
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50 Organizations Call For Ban on Armed Drones
The dozens of groups and over 75,000 individuals are calling for sanctions against nations that carry out drone attacks in violation of international law, and are demanding an immediate U.S. ban on the use or sale of weaponized drones.
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Shining Soul: A Phoenix Hip-Hop Duo Raps on Border Militarization
"Any MC back in New York knows that Hip-Hop began with that cultural pride of people who were living in the ghetto, living in the hood, living on the rez. [Our] beats are coupled with the critical, crucial and sometimes urgent messages you need to put in music."
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Newfoundland Bans Fracking, As First Nations-Led New Brunswick Protests Continue
Western Newfoundland’s shale-oil deposits have been described as potentially vast, but the region includes the Gros Morne National Park, which is a world heritage site and huge tourist attraction.
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"We Will Not Obey:" Building Global Resistance To the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The development nationwide of "TPP-Free Zones" sends a clear message to Obama and Congress that communities will not allow a secretly negotiated trade deal by transnational corporations to undermine the ability of local governments to legislate.
