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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A Tale of Two Cities: Can the Public Banking Movement Learn How to Fight?
After Santa Fe ceded ground as the first metropolis ready to lead us into an era of public banking, the City of Los Angeles has jumped to the forefront of the banking revolution.
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Black Activist Jailed for his Facebook Posts Speaks Out About Secret FBI Surveillance
Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first person prosecuted under a secretive U.S. effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’.
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Mother's Day Reality: More Employed Single Mothers Are Poor in Today's America
More than a quarter of single mothers living without partners or parents are now in poverty, and almost twice as many women as men are likely to live in poverty at some point.
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Ohio Voters Just Made Gerrymandering More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Here's some news you may have missed in the drama of Tuesday's multistate primaries: Ohio voters decided to limit one party’s power to draw congressional lines that would lock the other out of power for a decade.
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Rebel Cities 3: Zapatistas Are Still Trailblazing Worlds Beyond Neoliberalism
Everything changed on New Year's Day 1994, when Zapatistas took autonomous control of their land in Chiapas, southern Mexico. In the 24 years since, they have exported their organizing model worldwide.
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8 Lessons for Today’s Youth-Led Movements From a Decade of Youth Climate Organizing
Like all large movements, youth climate activism has had its successes and setbacks, its enormously inspiring moments and others when it failed to live up to its ideals.
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"We're Gonna Take Everyone" – Border Patrol Targets Prominent Humanitarian Group As Criminal Organization
The prosecution of No More Deaths volunteers, who leave water in the desert for migrants, reveals the group is being targeted by the Border Patrol.
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In Blow to Monsanto, India's Top Court Upholds Decision That Seeds Cannot Be Patented
"Our sovereignty is protected, our laws are protected. Our ability to write laws in the public interest are protected," said Vandana Shiva. "The Earth will win. Seed will win, Monsanto will lose."
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More Universities are Killing Off Liberal Arts Programs—And Yours Could be Next
Mike Williams, the chairman of University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's English department, described the paradox of eliminating his department to save jobs.
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Political Corruption Is Ruining Everything, but We Can Fix It
A bold new idea from Washington that might truly beat back routinized scandal.
