Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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The New Socialists
Why the pitch from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders resonates in 2018.
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Teacher Demands Remain Unsettled As Schools Reopen and Midterms Loom
While many teachers and their unions in the major strike states are still in a watching and waiting mode, the revolt has spread and militancy is growing.
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In Germany, Resistance to Trump Is Sharpening
Just a year and a half into the Trump presidency, anti-Americanism is on the rise here and German-American interests are quickly diverging.
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Rise for Climate: Thousands March Across U.S. to Protest Environment Crisis
Tens of thousands of people took part in nationwide marches on Saturday, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy in order to stave off the various perils of climate change.
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National Prison Strike Demands An End to Slave Labor
While past prison strikes haven’t always gained much attention, this action – focusing on ending indentured, low-paid work by prisoners – is yielding different results.
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Labor Unions Turn to New Strategies In Effort To Shape Midterm Elections
If labor adapts to the changing economic and political realities that got Trump elected, it can play an outsized role helping reshape the body politic as economic insecurity increases for the majority.
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Win for Indigenous Communities As Canadian Court Kills Trans Mountain Pipeline
Canada's Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the controversial Trans Mountain Pipeline, a project of Kinder Morgan, cannot move forward.
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Federal Court: First Amendment Protects Sharing Food With Homeless People
In a colorful decision that managed to invoke the Boston Tea Party, Lady Macbeth and Jesus of Nazareth, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that feeding the homeless is “expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment.”
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Could Accusations of Anti-Semitism Derail the Labour Party Under Jeremy Corbyn?
A growing chorus of Labour supporters are concerned that Jeremy Corbyn's handling of anti-semitism charges could cost him his role as prime minister at the next general election – and could even derail the party itself.
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Protesters clash, arrests mount after toppling of Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill
Protesters clashed Saturday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — resulting in several arrests — a few days after a group toppled a Confederate soldier’s bronze statue that was erected on campus more than a century ago.
