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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Lessons In Stopping Tax Inversion and Free-Riding Corporations
Companies that invert get all the benefits of operating in the U.S. – including purchases financed by taxpayers, while not supporting the government whose services, laws and workforce enable their profits.
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Foundations, Donors, "Philanthropists" Are Increasing – Not Narrowing – the Wealth Gap
America's foundations and wealthiest donors give only a small proportion of their total donations to local and grassroots organizations – furthering the divide between elite institutions and everybody else.
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The Market Basket Revolt: New England's New Labor Uprising
Former CEO Artie T. offered good benefits and fair pay – which is why employees are striking and customers are boycotting the market chain across the northeast, demanding to get him back.
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Watching the Judges: Court Transparency Advocates Say It's Time to Turn the Lights On
The Coalition for Court Transparency, which advocates greater openness and accountability in judicial branch, launched a campaign to install TV cameras in the chambers of the Supreme Court.
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Subsidy Madness: U.S. Taxpayers Still Spending $21 Billion to Fund Big Oil and Gas
At least two-thirds of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate impacts – so let's end the massive subsidies that encourage their production.
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Revealed: Newfound Threat to Tar Sands Projects In Salt Formations
Researchers have found a key factor in the Alberta steam fracking disasters – and no geological seal exists to prevent industry-made fractures caused by high-pressurized steam injections from erupting to the surface.
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Federal Reserve Targets Asset Bubbles In Warning to Wall Street – But Is It Listening?
Recent statements by Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen – who said that certain markets, like biotech and social media, are overvalued – mark a potential revolution in how central banks worldwide could act.
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Together We Rise: Occupy National Gathering Kicks Off Thursday In Sacramento
After taking place in Philadelphia in 2012 and last year in Kalamazoo, Mich., the third Occupy National Gathering moves west.
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The Movement for American Banking Independence Starts With Postal Banks
Over a billion people around the world are free to bank at their neighborhood post office – yet we stand almost alone among developed countries in keeping 300 million Americans from doing likewise.
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Thank You for Your Service: How One Company Sues Soldiers Worldwide
With stores near military bases across the country, the retailer USA Discounters offers easy credit to service members. But when those loans go bad, the company uses the local courts near its Virginia headquarters to file suits by the thousands.
