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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Inside the Moral Mondays Movement In North Carolina
Every week people gather to protest North Carolina’s Republican-led agenda.
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Retaliation Campaign in Turkey As Erdogan Punishes Protesters
In the aftermath of the Gezi Park protests that rocked Istanbul and spread last month across Turkey, activists are being locked up, journalists bullied and demonstrators persecuted.
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Tunisian Assassination Brings Thousands Into the Streets
Mohammed Brahmi, a leading member of the National Constituent Assembly and the Popular Movement — the same coalition as Chokri Belaid, who was killed in February — was riddled with bullets on Thursday outside his home.
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Hundreds March to Save Brooklyn's LICH Hospital
In Brooklyn on Wednesday, hundreds took part in mock funeral services for local healthcare that ended in multiple arrests.
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Direct Democracy in Montréal: What We Can Learn From the Maple Spring
Last year's Maple Spring raised hopes for the mobilization and victory potential of social movements. In hindsight, we can draw some conclusions about the legacy of that uprising — and how it relates to the Occupy movement that preceded it.
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What Are the Youth To Do? "Into the Wild" and "The East" Present Two Responses
The film The East accurately captures many of the injustices of modern society and makes a compelling case for indignation and activism to confront such injustices, but the particular reaction is not a viable path forward in the real world.
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Occupy Money Cooperative Introduces New Financial Service
The co-op banking project, which emerged as a group from Occupy Wall Street, seeks to extend financial services to populations that would otherwise be excluded.
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Battle for LICH Brooklyn Hospital Escalates
As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, moves to close a 155-year-old hospital in downtown Brooklyn — and potentially sell it to a for-profit entity or a developer — could have national implications.
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America's Legacy of Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin
Decades of white retrenchment led up to the moment that a bullet pierced Trayvon Martin’s heart -- and no matter what the prosecution, the defense, the jury or the defenders of George Zimmerman may think, racism was pivotal in his killing.
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Occupy Homes Resistance Grows Against Foreclosures in Minneapolis
Activists spearheaded an initiative called the Eviction Free Zone for neighborhoods in Minneapolis, where activists hunker down in foreclosed properties, warding off attempts by police and banks to change the locks.
