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Reporting from Raleigh: 9 Ways to Organize the Next Civil Rights Movement
North Carolina's Moral Monday protests — where nearly 1,000 have been arrested in just 12 weeks — could be a way for the South to become progressive again, while cultivating strong community leaders to run for local office.
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Worldwide GMO Labeling Laws
Breakdown of GMO Labeling Laws in Each Country. Dozens of major countries, including the BRIC nations and nearly all of Europe, have mandatory labeling laws for genetically modified (GM) foods. The U.S., Canada and Mexico do not. Is there a disconnect here?
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NSA Exposed: XKeyscore Program Collects "Nearly Everything A User Does On the Internet"
The top secret NSA tool allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.
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Manning Conviction Under Espionage Act Is Blatant Threat to Civil Liberties
Tuesday's verdict convicting Bradley Manning on 20 counts represents the first time under the Obama administration that any leaker of official secrets has been convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act.
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How Students Are Sparking a Direct Democracy Movement in Slovenia
A Slovenian student movement plans to initiate direct digital democracy to advocate for worker-owned means of production, participatory budgeting and greater government transparency.
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Appeals Court Rules Government Can Track Cellphones Without Warrants
A federal appeals court ruled that the government does not need a probable-cause warrant to access mobile-phone subscribers’ cell-site information.
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Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
Do taxpayers want to have their public money in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? San Francisco may be leading the way toward creating a municipal bank that is in the public's interest.
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The Business of Mass Incarceration
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jails and prisons, however, they each can generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
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Exposed: EPA Censored Key Pennsylvania Fracking Water Contamination Study
The Obama administration put the kibosh on a key EPA study of groundwater contamination from fracking.
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Global Power Project, Part 8: Banking on Influence with Wells Fargo
As the world's largest bank, Wells Fargo is able to commit countless crimes -- fraud, illegal foreclosures, money laundering, you name it -- and continues to get away with them by paying relatively small fines.
