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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U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Restore Voting Rights to Ex-Convicts
The Democracy Restoration Act would end criminal disfranchisement currently on the books in 35 states – enabling nearly 4.4 million U.S. citizens with past convictions to vote after they're released from prison.
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More Than 20,000 Take the Streets, 350 Arrested As Blockupy Protests Erupt In Frankfurt
Tens of thousands of anti-austerity activists from 39 European countries have rallied in Frankfurt in protest against the European Central Bank, which opened its new headquarters in the German financial city.
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Capitalism is Just a Story and Other Dangerous Thoughts, Part I
We need more options, not more uniformity; more deep thinking, not more rote acceptance; more opposition, not more repetition of the cold dry lie that there is no alternative.
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Thousands In London Protest Housing Crisis Demanding "Homes for Britain"
Spokespeople from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens also addressed Tuesday's event – the largest protest yet at successive governments’ failure to address the shortage of affordable housing in the UK.
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Seeds of Power: The Geopolitics of GMOs
The fact is that GMO technology is first and foremost an instrument of corporate power.
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David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy
His new book asserts that the 1% pushes a message of deregulation even as it feeds off an ever-growing global regulatory system of its own making.
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14 Arrested In Montana Protesting Senator's Denial of Climate Change Science
Social movements have had to escalate to peaceful civil disobedience when elected officials failed to represent their constituents.
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ACLU Files Lawsuit Over the Obama Administration's Drone Kill List
The American Civil Liberties Union has called for greater transparency regarding the targeted killing program, and how officials handle t
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Oregon Governor Signs Sweeping Automatic Voter Registration Into Law
The so-called Motor Voter legislation will add 300,000 new voters to the rolls.
