There are multiple similarities between Trump and the British monarch when looking at the 27 grievances the framers outlined in their 1776 declaration.
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Thousands of Refugees Heading West and North Convulse Europe
Braving cancelled trains, police truncheons and torrential rain, record numbers of refugees continued to struggle through Europe as the continent remained bitterly divided over how to respond to its biggest migration crisis since the second world war.
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Aligning Climate and Worker Movements, a New "Community Rights" Coalition Rises In Colorado
Seeking to boost the minimum wage, bolster environmental protections and strengthen tenants' rights, it may be the first time that the anti-fossil fuel and workers’ rights movements have allied behind a concrete political platform.
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Entrepreneurial In-Roads: Why the U.K.'s New Labour Leader Gained the Unlikely Support of Business
Jeremy Corbyn’s fairer rent price policy, which puts controls on the cost of rent to prevent small businesses being priced out of the soaring market, is one of many incentives for entrepreneurs and small business owners to back him and his party.
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Seattle Teachers Strike On First Day Of School Demanding Better Pay and Benefits
The action follows a series of strikes this spring, when thousands of Washington teachers in more than 60 school districts demanded better pay and benefits as well as reductions in class sizes.
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Latvia and Greece Kick Out Monsanto Becoming Latest E.U. Countries to Ban GMOs
If it wasn’t clear before, it seems quite evident that the tide is turning: big biotech companies are losing influence by the day, and the addition of two more European countries banning GMOs is evidence of that.
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Baltimore Approves $6.4 Million Settlement In Death of Freddie Gray
The settlement could play a role in whether a judge decides to move the trials for the six officers charged in Gray’s death out of Baltimore – a move their defense attorneys say is necessary if the officers are to receive a fair trial.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part I: London Protesters Greet the Latest Global Arms Fair
The U.K. government this week is once again inviting tyrants and human rights abusers to buy weapons and torture equipment – and facing a loud coalition of activists.
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Lawrence Lessig Launches Presidential Bid To Rid Money from Politics
"We need a government that is not captured by the tiniest fraction of the 1 percent."
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Ending the Weath Grip: America's Crisis Of Public Not Private Morality
Our problems have nothing to do with what happens in bedrooms or whether women can end their pregnancies. They have have everything to do with what occurs in boardrooms and whether corporations and the wealthy get to undermine our democracy.
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"Homegrown" Censorship: Cancelled Play Highlights U.K. Counter-Extremism Debate
Critics cry foul as production exploring youth radicalization gets mysteriously pulled after police visit, in what many people are calling informal and political censorship.