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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Why Money in Politics Is Darkening the Future for Millennials
From student debt to climate change, and from fair pay to gun control, young people are seeing the issues that affect them most lose out to the interests of rich corporations and the super wealthy whose power shapes Congress.
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“Acts of Passion”: What This Washington Post Investigation Tells Us About Fatal Police Shootings
The Post’s analysis doesn't confirm that race was a factor in dozens of shootings, but the fact that more than 75% of the officers involved were white, and two-thirds of the victims were minorities, leads observers to believe race played a factor.
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Earth Day Redux: As Climate Talks Belch Hot Air, Activists Put Lives On the Line
Artificial, self-important UN summits could not be further from the frontline of protest, where environmentalists are being killed at an alarming rate.
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Dismantling Occupy: How Wall Street Used Government Forces to Suppress Political Dissent
What happened to Occupy should serve as a warning to everyone about the dangerous fusion of corporate interests and our public institutions.
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America's Missing Black Men: Where Have 1.5 Million Gone?
For every 100 black women ages 25 to 54 who are not in jail, there are only 83 black men – the rest are missing largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars.
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Danish Wind Power Shatters Records, But Opposition Still Stands In the Way
Wind power in Denmark has created tens of thousands of jobs, yet it's still facing stiff opposition from corporations and politicians.
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Tens Of Thousands March In Europe to Protest Rigged Corporate Trade
“We are convinced that the entire public interest is at stake, whether water, energy, health, and public transport – the communities are largely deprived of their ability to act."
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FBI Overstated Forensic Evidence In More Than 200 Trials
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.
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Demanding "No More Deaths On Our Streets," Homeless March Makes Its Way Across Britain
On April 15, Manchester Town Hall was in lockdown as anti-austerity protestors attempted to storm the building – part of a March for the Homeless campaign aimed at raising awareness around homelessness issues.
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The US is the World Leader in Child Poverty
The number of homeless children has grown by 60 percent in the past six years.
