We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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Get Involved! It's the Hour for People Power in America
The social movements leading the push for immigration reform and gun regulations must ratchet up pressure after these latest battles are won to win the battles for climate change and anti-poverty legislation.
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Why Police Get Away with Lying Under Oath
Perversely, the criminal justice system gives officers an incentive to perjure themselves.
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The Threat of Disruption: When Movements Make Noise
The great movements that changed the course of our history accomplished more than spectacle and communication: they actually exercised power.
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The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL
Why are we arresting Americans for trespassing on their own property? It sure looks like it's just so a foreign corporation can get rid of their toxic oil and a handful of billionaires in Texas can make big profits refining and exporting it.
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Memo From Atlanta: How the Blackstone Group and "Property Managers" are Seizing Our Homes
After creating the massive housing bubble that eventually burst, Wall Street private equity and hedge funds have figured out how to profit off their destruction: by turning foreclosed homes into rentals and securitizing the rental income.
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Exposed: Spain Is in the Hands of Thieves
300 politicians are now under investigation for corruption in Spain, where politicians’ subservience to financial power is being exposed.
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A Year After Ramarley Graham's Murder, a Movement Against Police Brutality Grows
The NYPD has led the way in police violence in America, paying a staggering $550 million to settle 8,882 lawsuits in 2011 alone.
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Britain's New Law to Break up Unlawful Banks
British banks that fail to shield their day-to-day banking from risky investment activities could be broken up.
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Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage
Debt peonage must be broken if we are going to build a mass movement to paralyze systems of corporate power.
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"Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" to Require Teaching Climate Change Denial in Schools
The American Legislative Exchange Council has planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," mandating a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona state legislatures in 2013.
