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Britain Seeing Wide Gender Pay Gap As Company Reports Trickle In
Fewer than one in seven U.K. women earns more than her male counterpart in the same company. Men also take home £1 in bonuses for every 27 pence that women earn.
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Opposition Forces Kinder Morgan to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline
Environmental and indigenous groups are cheering after Kinder Morgan announced it was halting most work on its controversial Trans Mountain expansion pipeline project, citing continuing opposition.
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Richest 1% on Target to Own Two-Thirds of All Wealth By 2030
World leaders are urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point.’
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Seizing the Public Banking Moment
Public banks can finance a quick post-carbon transition, guarantee employment in communities, facilitate payments of universal basic income, and ensure that state and municipal budgets are always healthy.
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Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?
Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.
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The First Signs of a Global Climate Change Immigration Crisis Are Here
The Mekong Delta region is the canary in the coalmine – one of the first places in the world to feel the real and lasting effects of climate change, and a grim indication of what's to come.
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Shell Knew, Too: New Docs Show Oil Giant's Scientists Secretly Warned About Climate Threat Decades Ago
"Just like Exxon, Shell knew about the dangers of climate change and instead chose to embark on a decades-long campaign of deception," said 350.org executive director May Boeve.
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Louisiana and Minnesota Introduce Anti-Protest Bills Amid Fights Over Bayou Bridge and Enbridge Pipelines
The Louisiana House of Representatives has introduced new legislation aimed at criminalizing the activities of groups protesting the extraction, burning, and transport of oil and gas.
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Threat of Rising Violence In Britain's Streets After Cuts Reduce Police Forces
The steep Tory-led austerity cuts have fostered a national police force that simply doesn't have the budget or resources to tackle rising crime – in particular the hate crimes that exploded after Brexit.
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The Role of Youth In the Coming Transformation
One of the slogans in the actions against gun violence is “adults failed to solve the problem.” The truth is, those currently in power have failed on many fronts, e.g. climate change, wealth disparity, racial injustice, lack of health care and more.
