Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Opinion: The Need For Free Expression
If the freedom to question and criticize is suppressed, and journalists and artists of all disciplines are made to conform to an ideology that demands a uniformity of thought punctuated by intimidation and accented by fear, where then will we turn?
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Why Occupy Can't - and Shouldn't - Become the Progressive Tea Party
The Occupy movement would derelict of duty if we focused on the electoral at the expense of putting pressure on the system as a whole. The entirety of civic life can not be reduced to a get out the vote campaign.
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The Gill Tract's Only Hope is Occupation
This occupation is our last chance to effectively communicate with U.C. Berkeley about the future of this land.
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T. Boone Pickens: "The Biggest Deterrant to an Energy Plan in America is Koch Industries"
The second-largest private company in the United States, Koch Industries has spent at least $5 million in lobbying in each of the past four years—much of it for dirty fuels and against clean energy.
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Global Resistance to Canadian Mining Grows
A growing resistance movement is gaining momentum in Canada and around the world to demonstrate how detrimental the real effects of mining are to the social fabric of impacted communities.
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Latest Batch of DHS Occupy Documents Reveals Surveillance
The DHS has received and disseminated numerous internal intelligence reports and threat bulletins about Occupy Wall Street's activities, and monitoring of the group is widespread.
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Showdown in Charlotte: Bank Vs. America
Homeowners, students, immigrants, environmentalists, workers, women’s groups, peace activists and more will be standing up for justice in the Wall Street of the South as they take on Bank of America's annual shareholders meeting Wednesday.
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When Occupation is Not Enuf
From the perspective of people of color, "occupation" is a four-letter word.
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In Albuquerque - Occupy and Immigrant Groups Unite
If anything captured the essence of the 2012 May Day celebrations, it was the convergence of issues popularized by Occupy Wall Street-influenced movements with the demands for justice long pushed by immigrant community organizations.
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Oakland Police Cited for "Military-Type Response" to Occupy
A federal judge has ordered Oakland’s police department to submit a plan to address numerous unresolved complaints regarding their handling of the Occupy Oakland protests.
