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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Lobbyists for Spies Appointed To Oversee Spying
A wave of recent appointments has placed intelligence industry insiders into key Congressional roles overseeing intelligence gathering – just as lawmakers in DC are set to take up a series of sensitive surveillance issues like the Patriot Act.
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From Universities to Churches to Non-Profits, Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money
Our democracy is directly threatened when the rich buy off politicians – but no less dangerous is the quieter, more insidious buy-off of institutions democracy depends on to research, investigate, expose and mobilize action against big money.
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How Worker Co-ops are Moving Beyond Capitalism
From Detroit to Madison to New York City, labor organizers, civic leader and other activists are getting behind worker co-ops in a big way.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons
Former inmates have joined human rights advocates to organize nationwide demonstrations targeting everything from private phone-and-money-transfer companies to prison food vendors.
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Playing 1% Rules: Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Won't Help Workers Or Consumers
The TPP is a classic expression of the way the rules are fixed to benefit the few and not the many: It has been negotiated in secret, and corporations and banks help shape it.
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The Podemos Revolution: How A Small Group Of Radical Academics Changed European Politics
Just 15 months after it was founded, Podemos now leads the polls in Spain – now can the grassroots party actually win power and, along with Greece, help transform the continent?
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Student Debt Cancellation: The Hidden Tax Trap That Will Cripple America's Families
Under current federal tax rules, if student debts are cancelled, millions of families will get blindsided by a staggering tax bill on those debts – making it "out of the frying pan, into the fire" for cash-strapped families.
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U.S. Incomes Fell Last Year - Except for the Rich, Of Course
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the Labor Department says Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.
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How America Became An Oligarchy
If governments are recalling their sovereign powers, they might start with the power to create money, which was usurped by private interests while the people were asleep at the wheel.
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Can the Surveillance State Repeal Act Shift the Course on Spying?
Eager to reset the debate and anchor it in long overdue transparency, a bipartisan block of representatives have introduced the proposal to restore civil liberties, privacy and freedom of thought.
