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My Friend David Graeber

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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese (1955 - 2020)

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Kevin Zeese speaks at a rally for Chelsea Manning. By Ellen Davidson.
David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59

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David Graeber at his home in Manhattan in in 2005. A public intellectual, professor, political activist and author, he captivated a cult following that grew globally with each book he published over the last decade.Credit...Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times
Amid Backlash and Disillusionment, A Slower Reckoning for the #MeToo Movement In India

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How the Floyd Protests Turned Into a 24-Hour ‘Occupy City Hall’ in N.Y.

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For almost a week, protesters have gathered in front of City Hall, many of them spending the night.
Pakistan To Hire Pandemic's Unemployed to Plant 10 Billion Trees

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Corporations Will Not Save Us: The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Hedges: Let’s Get This Class War Started

Once oligarchs achieve unchecked economic and political power, as they have in the United States, the citizens become disposable. Oligarchs do not believe in self-sacrifice for the common good: they are the cancer of democracy.

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Protesters Worldwide Demand Release of Arctic 30, As Masked Men Break Into Greenpeace's Russian Office

As the Arctic 30 faced their 30th day of imprisonment in Russia, nearly 10,000 people took to the streets following a break-in at a Greenpeace office in Russia.

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How Domestic Workers Won Their Rights: 5 Big Lessons

For the first time ever, domestic workers will be guaranteed a federal minimum wage and overtime pay. Their victories in recent weeks have implications for larger portions of the workforce like contractors, nontraditional and temporary employees.

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Taking the Fight for Electronic Privacy to the Streets

On Oct. 26, a bipartisan coalition will stage the nation's biggest domestic protest against mass surveillance as thousands march on Capitol Hill to demand the right to private communication.

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40 Arrests, Police Turn Violent, As Frack Protest Continues in New Brunswick

Since Sept. 30, activists and members of the Elsipogtog and Mi'kmaq First Nations tribes have blocked a New Brunswick road used by employees of the energy company SWN Resources Canada, which wants to frack the area.

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More Student Debt and Less Payback, Especially for Women

Women earn less than men in virtually every occupation, from business to medicine to the arts, but pay the same amount to go to school, making any outstanding loans a larger repayment burden.

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An Interview with Occupy Activist and Author Nathan Schneider

Contradictions of Occupy, says Schneider? "Autonomy and accountability, sanity and madness, order and mischief, creativity and frustration, occupation and colonization, relief and recovery, grievance and self-sufficiency, ecstasy and failure."

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Bay Area Transit Fight Continues As Residents, Workers Vie for Message Control

With the government shutdown in its third week and a potential, cataclysmic debt ceiling wall looming Thursday, union negotiators, government officials and BART management are working nonstop to hammer out a deal that eases growing tensions.

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