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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The Chicago Teachers Strike and the Privatization of a Generation
Those of us concerned with the future of the labor movement need to seriously begin looking at the changes this particular strike embodied—not only for schools, but for the economy itself.
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In Dead of Night, A Coup for the Investor Class
While Congress, the press and the public were kept in the dark, 600 corporate lobbyists gained access to the secretively negotiated text of the Trans Pacific Partnership — a free-trade agreement of epic scale that would grant supreme power to global corporations.
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Fear of a Drone Planet
One In three Americans are afraid of police using unmanned aircrafts to track suspected criminals at home.
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America is Not Broke!
We have been told repeatedly that America is broke, that something must be cut and/or taxes raised or we will drown in debt. But these five multi-trillion dollar economic reforms would turn the American economy around to the positive.
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Nonviolent Resistance Works
Teachers in Chicago, Verizon workers, and students in Quebec recently proved that not only are strikes and general resistance and dissent essential to any democracy, they also work.
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Presidency, Inc.: Why No Candidate Will Save Us
Corporate power, no matter who is running the ward after January 2013, is poised to carry out U.S. history’s most savage assault against the poor and the working class, not to mention the Earth’s ecosystem.
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Letter to Libertarians: The People Are The Government
The Tea Party, as well as the Republicans and Democrats, embody corporate values and anti-democratic tendencies that threaten our country’s tradition of popular sovereignty.
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A New and Unusual Alliance Fights Tar Sands in Texas
In the tradition of forest defenders in the Northwest and mountain defenders in Appalachia, the Texas campaign to block the Keystone XL pipeline has embraced escalated direct action performed by people across the social and political spectrum.
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200,000 Greeks March on Parliament to Condemn Austerity
A general strike brought the country to a halt on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.
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Elderly Veterans Facing Foreclosure
Veterans are increasingly losing their homes to foreclosure.