We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Free State of Jones" and "The Purge: Election Year"
These new films ask: Are we primed to drown in the culture of fear created for us? Doomed to waste one another in most excessive ways, while the wealth remains undisbursed?
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Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror
Impoverished urban communities have evolved into miniature police states.
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In First, U.S. Judge Throws Out Cell Phone "Stingray" Evidence Obtained Without Warrant
For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.
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Activists Reclaim Public Space Through Advertising Takeovers–Come Learn How
Public Ad Campaign encourages political movements to reach new audiences by occupying corporate messaging and creating new forms of communication.
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This Grassroots Louisiana Organization In A Conservative Parish Wants To Ban Fracking
Concerned Citizens of St. Tammany demanded a halt to efforts to frack in their backyard.
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Will Apple's New Patent Push Delete on Ability to Record Police?
Concerns have been raised regarding the potential for new infrared technology to censor dissidents during political protest.
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Did Brexit Just Open the Floodgates for A New Era of Direct Democracy?
I must congratulate the U.K. citizens for voting to leave the undemocratic, unaccountable, bureaucratic and failed experiment that is the European Union. And no, I am not an anti-immigrant racist.
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World Anger Over Honduras Activist Lesbia Yaneth Urquia's Death
A mother of three children, Urquía was a member of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, the same organization founded by Berta Cáceres — who was also murdered for working to stop a hydroelectric project.
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The U.S. Has Been Unfairly Deporting Veterans For Years
A new report by the ACLU accuses the federal government of failing to naturalize, and then deporting, immigrants after they serve in the military.
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza On the Movement’s First 3 Years
BLM’s main success has been in achieving a “cultural shift that is moving through this country,” one that is “necessary for real policy change to happen.”
