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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Revealed: Everything That's Happened Since Supreme Court Gutted Voting Rights Act
Before the Supreme Court’s June 2013 decision, a state had to demonstrate that a new voting law wasn't discriminatory, and the Justice Department had to decide to implement it. Now it's voters who must file Voting Rights Act lawsuits claiming racial discrimination.
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Exclusive: Meet India's Comic Activists Whose Wall Art Is Inspiring Movements — And Changing Policy
After studying with the comic activist Sharad Sharma, poor children in a small Indian town literally drew out their concerns in the form of comics — and as a result got improved water facilities and forced a discussion about early marriages.
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Federal Lawsuit Charges Sheriff's Deputy Unconstitutionally Killed Andy Lopez
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the family of Andy Lopez, contending that a sheriff deputy's killing of the 13-year-old was unconstitutional in that it violated the Fourth Amendment limiting police authority. Huge demonstrations are planned for Saturday.
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Ben Franklin Was Right About the NSA
No other nation we know of so thoroughly sifts through the world’s communications, bugs 35 key leaders, targets individuals for assassination by CIA drones or U.S. special forces and stores every word its citizens ever sent.
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Vote Victory: Fracking Banned In Three Colorado Cities!
The cities passed measures on Tuesday with solid margins to suspend or ban hydraulic fracturing.
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Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Calls Spy Agencies' Encryption Cracking "Appalling and Foolish"
The computer scientist who created the world wide web has called for a "full and frank public debate" over Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ, says the system of checks and balances has failed.
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Thousands of Workers in Greece Strike to Protest Austerity
The 24-hour general walkout by Greece's largest public- and private-sector unions shut schools and disrupted flights.
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The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
Had minimum wage kept up with worker productivity it would be $22/hour today. For a workers movement to win a living minimum wage will require getting corporate-backed politicians unelected from office, and building strength at the workplace level.
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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
As chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the California senator generates an abundance of fog, weasel words, anti-whistleblower slander and bogus notions of reform — while methodically stabbing civil liberties in the back.
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Emissions, Climate Change Hit the Heartland As EPA Visits Kansas
Much of the debate in Kansas this week boiled down to a fierce argument over the future of existing coal-fired power plants, pitting supporters of coal against those who say the health of communities and the environment is at stake.