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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Stepping Out From Shadow of Patriot Act, It's Time To End NSA Data Collection
Maintaining a database of phone records upends a fundamental premise of the Constitution – the government should intrude on Americans’ private lives only if it has probable cause to suspect criminal activity.
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Are Baltimore's Protests the Prelude to a Revolution?
The people have demanded to be heard, and now, the city, state and federal government have to listen – the real fight is just beginning.
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Rise of the New Black Radicals
The almost daily murders of young black men and women by police in the United States have given birth to a new young black militant.
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Just Last Month Maryland Cop Lobbyists Helped Block Reforms
A package of police reform bills was weakened under political pressure from Maryland police unions.
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How U.S. Cities Are Fighting Back Against the TPP and Fast Track
While lawmakers are pushing full steam ahead, city officials are making their own concerns about the legislation crystal clear.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Following Student Debt Revolt, For-Profit Corinthian Colleges Closes the Doors
It was “not a school chain but a fraud factory, propped up by the Department of Education and taxpayer money for far too long,” wrote a group of Corinthian students waging a debt strike and refusing to pay their loans.
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Police and Protesters Clash In Baltimore After Freddie Gray's Funeral
“It’s from years and years of taking shit. Now we’re at a point where people just don’t give a fuck.”
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Why Are City and State Worker Pensions Paying Billions In Fees To Wall Street?
Public officials are overseeing this massive payout to Wall Street at the very moment many of those same officials are demanding big cuts to retirees’ promised pension benefits.
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Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings
As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.
