The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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20,000 Republicans Just Voted for An Actual Nazi
Arthur Jones, the former head of the American Nazi Party, ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. No Republican stepped up to oppose him.
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The Assault on Environmental Protest
More than 50 state bills that would criminalize protest, deter political participation, and curtail freedom of association have been introduced across the country in the past two years.
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Stansted 17 On Trial: U.K. Protesters Face Terrorism Charges For Helping Save Migrants
One year ago, 17 people locked themselves on to a deportation charter flight at London Stansted Airport, grounding a plan that would have sent 59 people back to face reprisal – and possibly death – in Ghana and Nigeria. Now, those activists could face life imprisonment.
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How the Anti-Democracy Movement Used Media to Command the Narrative
The deregulation of media in the 1990s illustrates the effectiveness of the Anti-Democracy Movement in convincing Republicans and Democrats alike that a narrow, market-driven, anti-government approach was imperative—even if it led to oligopoly.
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The Alt-Right Is Literally Killing People. What Will It Take To Stop Them?
The Florida high school massacre, unfortunately, is another data point in a complex and disturbing portrait of the developing, fundamentally disorganized group known as the alt-right.
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Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People—And Still Keep Their Jobs
Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives.
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Police Believe a Journalist Was Killed for Reporting On Fraud in the Heart of Europe
Ján Kuciak, a 27-year-old investigative reporter, and his partner, Marina Kusnirova, were found dead in their apartment Sunday in a village east of the capital of Bratislava, after Kuciak's writing exposed tax evasion among Slovak elites.
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The Next Stage of Net Neutrality Conflict Begins
There are multiple fronts of struggle to make net neutrality a reality: Congress, the courts, states and communities.
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The Racist History of the 'Crisis Actor’ Attacks on Parkland School Shooting Survivors
61 years before teens in Parkland, Fla., survived a mass shooting only to be labeled “crisis actors,” nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.
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How We Fight Fascism
In 1923, the radical socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin warned that the longer the stagnation and rot of a dysfunctional democracy went unaddressed, the more attractive fascism would become. History has amply illustrated where our current trends lead.
