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 Great GMO Boycott: Could the World's Most Hated Corporation Finally Be On The Run?
The anti-GMO movement has identified Monsanto’s Achilles heel—GMO food labeling at the state level—and our common task now is to win the all-important Washington State ballot initiative I-522.
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Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs
Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.
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Illinois Bill Seeks Financial Transaction Tax on $800 Trillion Derivatives Market
A Financial Transaction Tax would be easy to administer and difficult to evade. Why should the rest of us pay up to 10% on the necessities of life while risky derivative purchases aren't taxed at all?
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Battle for LICH Brooklyn Hospital Escalates
As the Affordable Care Act goes into effect, moves to close a 155-year-old hospital in downtown Brooklyn — and potentially sell it to a for-profit entity or a developer — could have national implications.
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America's Legacy of Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin
Decades of white retrenchment led up to the moment that a bullet pierced Trayvon Martin’s heart -- and no matter what the prosecution, the defense, the jury or the defenders of George Zimmerman may think, racism was pivotal in his killing.
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Occupy Homes Resistance Grows Against Foreclosures in Minneapolis
Activists spearheaded an initiative called the Eviction Free Zone for neighborhoods in Minneapolis, where activists hunker down in foreclosed properties, warding off attempts by police and banks to change the locks.
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JPMorgan Chase to Pay $500 Million for Energy Fixing Scandal
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has fined Chase for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California.
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1,500 Fracking Leases Cancelled in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Where "Gasland" Began
Unprecedented mass lease cancellation occurs near the homes of some of fractivism's most effective mobilizers.
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Femi Kuti's Lyrical Politics and the Musical Uprising in Wisconsin
Solidarity singers in Madison haven’t missed a day of music since the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, when the movement for workers’ rights and against crony capitalism took the state by storm.
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Raising the Battle Over Fossil Fuel Exports in the Northwest
A perverse thing is happening in the Pacific Northwest, where energy corporations are trying to slip their fossil fuel exports through some of the most progressive, environmentally conscious communities in North America.
