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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Students From 1,600 Cities Walked Out of School Friday to Protest Climate Change
This strike followed the last co-ordinated event on March 15, which saw over 1.6 million people across 133 countries turn out at demonstrations according to organizers.
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Rebel Cities 25: Barcelona En Comú Reclaims the City and Reimagines the World
Barcelona's visionary popular party stands at the forefront of a global effort to remake the city in the interest of citizens and neighborhoods – through popular assemblies responding to the will of the people.
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Green Party Surges In Britain, Winning Hundreds of Seats Amid Climate Protests
The Tories and Labour lost badly in recent local elections as the Green Party gained 265 seats to emerge as one of the biggest winners – reflecting people's growing priority to save the planet.
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Americans Need More Bike Transit – And These Nonprofits Are Bringing It
Bike-focused nonprofits raise awareness about the environmental and health benefits that come with more biking transit – and they're also pushing cities to modernize their approach to transportation.
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Strikes by U.S. Workers Outpacing Rate in 2018
New strikes this month by hospital workers in Toledo, Ohio; teachers in Oregon, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina; and international strikes and protests by Uber and Lyft drivers are further galvanizing the labor movement.
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Rebel Cities 24: How Catalonia's CUP Party Is Helping Reclaim Towns, Cities and Nation
The muncipalist thread interwoven into the radical Catalan independence movement offers insight into how to challenge state power—a paramount concern for municipalists everywhere.
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Record Student Loan Debt Shadows This Year’s College Graduates
Students face a Catch-22: not going to college almost guarantees not progressing into the middle class, but high student loan debt also restricts social and economic advancement.
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Extinction Rebellion Must Evolve to Tackle Our Systemic Climate Crisis
To really tell the truth about climate change, the rebels in Extinction Rebellion need to call out climate criminals. Anything else is a whitewash.
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Rebel Cities 23: Japanese Food Co-op Seikatsu Offers Hope for a Starving Planet
The Seikatsu model of food supply provides a working solution toward the intensifying capitalist-driven global food crisis. It could be a model that others worldwide choose to follow.
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We Are (Still) the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.
