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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No Safe Place: Criminalization of Homelessness Rises In Cities Across U.S.
In a new study released last week, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty tracked laws in 187 cities over the past five years and found an uptick in nearly every type of anti-homeless ordinance.
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As Indignados Take Office, Pablo Iglesias and Podemos Party Bring New Spanish Justice
After winning 1.2 million votes, Spain's newest political party wants to raise minimum wages, abolish tax havens, nationalize banks rescued with public funds and establish a guaranteed minimum income.
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D.I.Y. Theocracy: To Understand Hobby Lobby, Look at the "Alliance Defending Freedom"
Labeled a “hate group” by progressive social and political organizations, the Alliance has amassed a substantial track record marginalizing LGBT equality efforts and attacking women’s reproductive rights.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation Demands Ontario Halt Clear-Cut Logging on Their Lands
The Premier of the Province, Kathleen Wynn, is being given another chance to respond to growing calls from the Indigenous community to protect their Territorial Rights.
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California Shuts Down Fracking Waste Sites Fearing Aquifer Contamination
Officials ordered the immediate closure of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others amid fears that companies pumped toxic fracking fluids into public drinking water.
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French Arabs in Paris Face Tear Gas, Tasers, Arrests As They Defy Palestine Protest Ban
Organizers of the protests, in which 35 were arrested, said the police crackdown was aimed at further disenfranchizing the nation’s politically and socially marginalized Arab and Muslim communities.
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Rebalance the Scales Of Justice: Here Are Five Ways to Reform the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has largely failed at its most important tasks of enforcing the Constitution and protecting the rights of minorities – as the court's recent decisions starkly showed.
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Rolling this Rebellion Forward – And Ending the Influence of Money In Politics
One week and nearly 20 actions later, the Rolling Rebellion to get corporate money out of the political process was a successful jump-off point for bigger, better, brighter and louder actions soon to come.
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Tar Sands Protests Grow As Six Nations Halt Enbridge Pipeline Work In Ontario
“It is our law that we need to protect the land and the water so that our people will be here for another 9,000 years."
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Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig: Getting Money Out of Politics, Part 3
Part 3: Chris Hedges interviewed Harvard professor and MayDay SuperPAC founder Lawrence Lessig about his plans to break the hold of big money on American elections.
