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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Media In Rebellion: 65 Groups Tell F.C.C. to Reject Comcast-Time Warner Merger
Representing consumers, content producers, and social justice and democracy reform advocates, this dozens-strong alliance called on the Federal Communications Commission to reject the mega media merger.
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Show Me the America That Has Forgotten About Wall Street's Foreclosure Fraud
If we want a healthy society that follows its laws and applies them equally to everyone, we must demand a full investigation and criminal prosecutions for everyone involved in the mortgage backed securities fiasco.
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Why Black Twitter Reported Ferguson The Way Media Could Not
Black bloggers and activists are aggressively using Twitter to hold corporate media – and the police – accountable.
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We Won't Pay: America's Student Loan Crisis
Borrowers with federal student loans appear to be buckling under the weight of their debt, as more than half of Direct Loans – the most common type of federal student loan – aren't being repaid on time or as expected.
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The Kinloch Connection In Ferguson: Razing of Historic Black Town Fueled Popular Anger
To understand Ferguson one must understand Kinloch – a once vibrant middle-class community in north St. Louis County and the first incorporated black community in the state – which today lies vacant and decayed.
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Can A Unified Movement Confront the Climate Crisis This September In New York?
We are in a global battle of the people versus the plutocrats and this battle has a ticking timer called the climate crisis.
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Tech City Skyscrapers Cast A Shadow of Wealth Over London’s Poorest Neighborhoods
As state-of-the-art buildings belonging to some of the world's biggest, richest tech firms contrast with the child poverty and unemployment outside, it may not be long before London's less privileged residents take action.
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UC Study: Police Often Provoke Protest Violence – Not the Other Way Around
From clashes during the Occupy movement to violence this month in Ferguson, Mo., researchers say protests get ugly when officers use aggressive tactics, dress in riot gear and line up like military.
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The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records.
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Oregon Delivers Defeat to Coal Industry Denying Key Permit for Export Terminal
The Morrow Pacific coal terminal would have not only encouraged CO2-emitting coal to be burned elsewhere, but would pollute local waterways and increase rail and truck traffic in once restful regions.
