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Louisiana and Minnesota Introduce Anti-Protest Bills Amid Fights Over Bayou Bridge and Enbridge Pipelines
The Louisiana House of Representatives has introduced new legislation aimed at criminalizing the activities of groups protesting the extraction, burning, and transport of oil and gas.
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Threat of Rising Violence In Britain's Streets After Cuts Reduce Police Forces
The steep Tory-led austerity cuts have fostered a national police force that simply doesn't have the budget or resources to tackle rising crime – in particular the hate crimes that exploded after Brexit.
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The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed
Details about the meetings of the spy agency coalition SIGINT Seniors are disclosed in a batch of classified documents from the NSA’s internal newsletter, provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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170 Arrested in Canada as Anti-Pipeline Protests Continue Against Kinder Morgan Project
More than 170 people were arrested from March 17 to 24 on Burnaby Mountain in Canada taking bold action to stop the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline.
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'Sabotage' of Democracy as Trump Adds Citizenship Question to 2020 Census
"This administration is now using the census as a weapon against immigrants."
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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.
