Ideological rigidity is not only keeping us from making inroads with mainstream society and growing our numbers—but effectively preventing us from accomplishing any actual policy goals.
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Google Becomes Latest Tech Giant to Drop A.L.E.C. Over Climate Denial
Microsoft, Facebook, Yelp and Yahoo are among other firms parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has consistently opposed and obstructed climate change policies.
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Florida City Makes It Illegal To Sleep In Public, Cracking Down On Homeless
Life is tough when you're homeless. This city wants to make it tougher.
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As Scotland Vote Nears, Fragmentation and Sharp Disunity In A U.K. That Isn't So United
Britain’s political system is broken to the point where many people in Northern England actually want to join Scotland to escape austerity measures.
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Veronica Noriega’s Hunger Strike in Seattle: What it Means For Immigrants and All of Us
Veronica Noriega is putting herself on the line for thousands of families, and this is why you should care.
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People, Americans: Don’t Look to Government to Solve the Climate Crisis
Solutions exist to mitigate climate change and build systems that allow us to adapt to its harshest impacts – but the answers won’t be coming from above.
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The New Media Movement Is Here: 20 News Sites Kicking Our Generation Into Action
With a shift in media underway, there's an opportunity for alternative online news sources to turn youth apathy into engagement and cynicism into a demand for social and political change.
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World's Biggest PR Company Axes Climate Change Deniers – But Forgets About A.L.E.C.
If Edelman is serious about not working for groups that deny climate change, it needs to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council – which which works harder than anyone to block climate policy.
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U.S. Military Bans The Intercept Fearing Further Leaks of Government Secrets
Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps staff have been prohibited from reading stories published by The Intercept because they may contain classified information from a "potential new leaker."
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part IV
New but little-known Pentagon directives authorize the use of armed drones against American citizens in the homeland in the context of domestic emergencies.
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Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part III
Arizona State University’s Defense Department-sponsored data-mining algorithms would enhance CIA "signature" drone strike targeting.