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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With March on Harrisburg, the "Blue Wave" Gathers Force in Pennsylvania
We aren’t meant to believe that what we do, or what we march for, or who we elect, on the local level, has any real larger-scale consequences. March on Harrisburg is attempting to change that.
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'Time for a Moral Confrontation': Poor People's Campaign Launches With Local Rallies Nationwide
The campaign, with an emphasis on voter mobilization and civil disobedience, will include 40 days of demonstrations culminating in a massive protest on June 23 in Washington, D.C.
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Mother's Day Reality: More Employed Single Mothers Are Poor in Today's America
More than a quarter of single mothers living without partners or parents are now in poverty, and almost twice as many women as men are likely to live in poverty at some point.
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Rebel Cities 3: Zapatistas Are Still Trailblazing Worlds Beyond Neoliberalism
Everything changed on New Year's Day 1994, when Zapatistas took autonomous control of their land in Chiapas, southern Mexico. In the 24 years since, they have exported their organizing model worldwide.
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8 Lessons for Today’s Youth-Led Movements From a Decade of Youth Climate Organizing
Like all large movements, youth climate activism has had its successes and setbacks, its enormously inspiring moments and others when it failed to live up to its ideals.
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"We're Gonna Take Everyone" – Border Patrol Targets Prominent Humanitarian Group As Criminal Organization
The prosecution of No More Deaths volunteers, who leave water in the desert for migrants, reveals the group is being targeted by the Border Patrol.
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Testing Controversial Voter ID Rules, Britain Eyes An Uncertain Electoral Future
Some 4,000 voters across Bromley, Woking, Gosport, Watford and Swindon were turned away from the local election polling booths because they didn't have a bank card, driving license or passport.
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Students Denounce NRA's "Dangerous Agenda" In Protests Outside Convention
"Our generation is the post-Columbine generation," said organizer Waed Alhayek. "After the Parkland students stood up, even older people are saying, 'Why have we accepted thoughts and prayers?' on Twitter."
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Arizona Teacher Raises Passed After Strike Shuts Schools
A budget that provides big raises for many of the state's striking teachers potentially ends the five-day walkout that kept more than a million public school students out of the classroom.
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The Significance of Armenia’s ‘April Revolution’
The massive street protests forced the country’s longtime leader to resign. But what’s next for Armenia?
