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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Justice On the Take: How Dark Money Is Seeping Into U.S. Courtrooms
Right-wing organizations have committed unprecedented sums of money to influence state judicial elections, including a number of key state supreme court retention races.
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Global Power Project: Bilderberg Group and Its Link to World Financial Markets
Given that Bilderberg represents the interests of some of the largest and most powerful banks and financial institutions in the world, the meetings provide a forum where "financial markets" are duly given a powerful voice.
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Umbrella Politics: What American Movements Can Learn From the Hong Kong Protests
Hong Kong activists are fighting to exercise the simple right that Americans would be taking for granted the very next day.
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Reflections on a Ferguson Solidary Protest In Los Angeles
It was people taking to the streets, peacefully, organized – the evolution of anger, a pointed protest against a system that does not serve nor protect, that does not offer justice but injustice.
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Hong Kong Police Violently Drive Out Pro-Democracy Protesters, Arresting Dozens
Police baton charges left some protesters prostrate and bleeding while volleys of pepper spray left others vomiting and temporarily blind, with at least 40 people taken to hospital.
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Glimpses Of Our Power: Growing the Racial Justice Movement
The nationwide reaction to the grand jury decision in Ferguson and police killings across the country taught the social justice movement an important lesson: the people have the power to shut down the nation.
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The Postal Public Option: How the USPS Can Rescue Desperate Payday Borrowers
Predatory financial services like Cash America are siphoning around $100 billion per year from the pockets of people who need the money most – giving urgency to the call for low-cost postal financial services.
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Fast Food Workers To Strike Nationwide December 4, Demanding $15 An Hour
“We’re going to show this movement is bigger than ever."
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Ferguson Protesters Embark on 120-Mile March To Missouri State Capital
The march, organized by the NAACP, was among diverse protests held nationwide over the weekend in opposition to a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown.
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Stiglitz: How Inequality Is Killing the American Dream – And What We Can Do About It
The U.S. is gradually, and painfully, struggling to come to terms with certain contradictions about the enormity of inequalities marking our society.
