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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Rightwing Truckers to Clog D.C. Freeways to Protest "Unconstitutional" Congress
On October 11, anti-government truckers and tractor-trailer drivers plan to launch a coordinated "three lanes deep" assault, clogging the inner loop of the Washington D.C. beltway, adding populist muscle to the government shutdown.
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Message from Mexico to Occupy Wall Street: Stop the TPP!
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most anti-democratic international tool of dispossession and exploitation designed in human history, allowing multinational corporations’ rights to supersede the constitutional provisions of all countries and peoples’ rights.
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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity
Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.
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What Might Occupy’s Nonviolent Militia Look Like?
Why do Americans equate the idea of an "army" or "militia" with weapons? A discussion is evolving about the future of creative nonviolent resistance and what an "Occupy Militia" might look like.
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3 Things to Know Ahead of the Global March Against Monsanto
Despite the funding with which it shapes public policy and tries to prevent GMO labeling, and its overall reckless corporate behavior, Monsanto is nothing compared to the power of the consumer at large.
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Seattle Social Justice Film Festival Brings New Voices to the Big Screen
This week in Seattle, the second Social Justice Film Festival draws a sharp focus to injustice and unfairness.
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Two Years On: Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for the Occupy Movement
With things getting only better for the rich and worse for the poor, it's not a question of if, but when, the next historic shift in the tectonic plates of global capitalism will take place.
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Months After Fierce Opposition to Fare Hikes, Brazil's Protests Are Evolving
A complex mixture of Anonymous supporters, Black Bloc activists and middle class conservatives took to the streets, reflecting the changing social movement.
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Piracy Charges Could Mean 15-Year Sentences for Greenpeace Activists
Russia charged 14 Greenpeace activists with piracy on Wednesday for their peaceful demonstration last month scaling a Gazprom oil platform in the Arctic.
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"Fight for 15" Strikes Demand Higher Pay
Nationwide "Fight for 15" strikes calling for higher pay have spurred a debate over what constitutes a living wage and helped shift the labor movement toward direct action.
