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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Brooklyn Rises Up in Protest of Police Shooting
East Flatbush rises up after an unarmed 16-year-old is shot seven times by police.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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Strike Debt Abolishes $1 million in Emergency Room Debt
Strike Debt bought and abolished over $1 million in debt from emergency rooms in Kentucky and Indiana.
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From Texas to Appalachia, Putting Our Bodies on the Line
Protests against fracking pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action community resistance happening nationwide.
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Europe's Lost Generation Finds a Voice in the Five Star Movement
M5S emerged as the strongest party in Italy's lower house of parliament, as a new citizens' movement expresses the mounting rage and anxiety spreading throughout crisis-stricken southern Europe.
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Letter from Bulgaria: What’s Taking Us to the Streets?
Twenty-four years after the supposed fall of communism in Bulgaria, it is the social state that has been brought down - not the communist elites.
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Refugees Demanding Rights Continue 4-Month-Long Occupation in Berlin
Dozens of refugees have been occupying a central square in Berlin's bustling Kreuzberg district since October, as part of a growing nationwide movement to abolish refugee camps and end deportations of asylum seekers from Germany.
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Protesters Slam CEO and "Fix the Debt" Leader over Corporate Tax Breaks
Speaking at a Fix the Debt conference on Monday, Honeywell International Inc. CEO David Cote was interrupted several times by Flip the Debt protesters over tax loopholes that allow companies to pay far less taxes than ordinary Americans.
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Philly, Where It All Began
May Day's over, but take heart: Summer's here, and with it, music and mischief.
