It is clear that authoritarian fascists, in the United States and elsewhere, do not want education that promotes critical thinking.
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Tiananmen Anniversary Quelled in Beijing As Crowds Flood Hong Kong
Over 100,000 people gathered Wednesday in Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while heightened security in Beijing prevented the public from assembling there.
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Seattle Passes Historic $15 Minimum Wage Law, Highest In the Nation
The historic victory will benefit 100,000 working people in the city, and is expected to give momentum to minimum wage campaigns burgeoning across the U.S.
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UN: Austerity Is Crippling Planet With One-Quarter of Europe Now In Poverty
The International Labor Organization says government austerity cuts driven by the financial crisis have especially hit the world's poorest, making basic services unattainable.
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Freedom Summer II: The Walmart Campaign
The current struggle of low-wage workers across America echoes the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
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Outrageous Decline in British Healthcare A Result of Cuts and Privatization
How fiscally responsible is it for the government to subsidize big banks with taxpayer money while insisting it has to make billions in cuts to the National Health Service?
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Chomsky: How Edward Snowden Became the World's Most Wanted Criminal
Power must not be exposed to the sunlight – and Snowden failed to comprehend this essential maxim.
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‘And Still We Rise’: Palestinian Soccer Stands Tall
“It’s like those words of your poet who just died, Maya Angelou, her words that we see written on the walls that surround us: ‘And still we rise.’”
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Corporations Are Not People. Period.
80% of the American public believes corporations should not have the same rights as people. Yet our community is one of thousands that has been slapped down in the name of “corporate personhood.”
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CEO's Made 331 Times As Much as Their Workers Last Year
In 2013, CEOs of S&P 500 companies made 331 times as much as their employees.
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Texas Fracking Verdict Puts Oil and Gas Industry On Notice About Toxic Emissions
Between February 2010 and July 2011, Lisa and Bob Parr filed 13 complaints about air pollution from gas and oil operations near their ranch in Wise County, Texas.
