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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More Than Half Million Americans Enter Movement to Stop Trans-Pacific Partnership
The swift, social media-fueled campaign has been embraced by 120 organizations.
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This Is What Prosperity for Main Street – Not Wall Street – Looks Like
Taxpayers are paying more to the financiers of projects than to those who supplied the materials and actually committed the labor to building them. Are you O.K. with Wall Street bankers sucking prosperity from our communities?
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Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
'From Hurricane Andrew in Miami to the massive floods of the Red River in the Upper Midwest, I've been privileged to listen as women shared what they did in disasters and how they felt.'
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Corruption Report Slams E.U. Countries for $162 Billion "Abuse of Power for Private Gain"
The first-ever E.U.-wide study on corruption found that the billions lost annually to padded government contracts, covert political financing and bribes for health care could fund the entire E.U. budget.
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Is Fracking About to Arrive on Your Doorstep?
U.S. Energy Information Administration maps show landscapes so densely veined by gas pipelines – more than 350,000 miles of them run through the country – that they look like smashed windshields. The methane madness has to stop.
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In Mass “Fusion Movement“ of the South, Nation Looks to Raleigh As Tea-Party Combatant
The organizer of a “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C., says he wants it to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures nationwide.
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Ukraine Resistance Withstands Ice and Violence In 11-Week-Long Occupation
An uneasy calm hangs this week over Kiev’s Maidan, where riot police and masked demonstrators engage in a 24-hour staring contest across ice bricks, burn barrels and scrap metal as the political impasse marks 11 weeks of occupation.
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Big Banks Exit the Payday Loan Business
Several big banks are exiting the small dollar, short-term loan business after federal regulators warned that they would look into whether these high-interest, payday-like loans violate consumer protection laws.
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Keystone XL Protests Ignite in 200 Cities, Monday (02/03/2014)
Responding to the State Department’s erroneous, industry-paid report issued Friday on the climate impacts of the tar sands pipeline, activists are mobilizing hundreds of direct actions and marches nationwide to demand an end to Keystone.
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Money Laundering, Misinforming and Pro-GMO: Abolish the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association
The GMA stands beside Monsanto as the most vile, physically harmful corporation in the global food industry, going to any lengths to keep cheap GMO foods flowing.
