The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.
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TPP Protesters Scale U.S. Trade Rep HQ
Eight "construction workers" in blue coveralls and yellow hard hats made their way up an unsecured scaffolding in D.C. to unfurl a huge banner condemning the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Enron Billionaire and Pew Trusts Looting Public Pensions
A dark partnership between Pew Charitable Trusts and an Enron executive aims to cut guaranteed retirement income and rob American workers of their pensions.
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A Credit Union in Puget Sound Elects a Different Future
The Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union in Washington State has helped locals divest from JPMorgan Chase and now holds $30 million of the community's assets.
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Europe Seeks to Ban Deep-Sea Trawling
Deep-sea trawlers in Europe operate at a financial loss and rely on taxpayers to foot the bill for the destruction of the ocean floor.
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House Democrats Demand Hearing on Massive Oil and Gas Spills in Colorado Floods
Two congressmen are trying to investigate toxic spills caused by massive flooding in Colorado, where oil and gas well drilling has doubled since 2006.
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Life at the End of the Pipeline: Fighting Tar Sands in Houston's East End
Can the climate justice and other U.S. social movements better support communities of color like Manchester, Texas, which are already bearing a disproportionate burden of tar sands refining, pollution and the illnesses that come with it?
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Oregon Public Workers Win Zero-Concessions Contract through Strike Threat
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber supported attacks on health care, wages and work conditions, but backed down this summer when Service Employees 503, Oregon's largest union, proved organized and ready to wage a statewide strike.
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Breaking Bad: Greed, Capitalism and Walter White’s Paper Empire
The story of Breaking Bad’s Walter White is, in many ways, also the story of the free market and the perils of capitalism, greed and success.
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Rebelling Against Massive Use of Pesticides, Brazilians Shift To Organic Foods
One of the reasons Brazilians are now growing, selling and eating high quantities of organics is because the country is the biggest user of pesticides per capita in the world – an unfortunate distinction Brazil has held since 2008.
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What To Do About Surveillance and the FISA Court?
If we settle for merely feel-good reforms to FISA and security state overreach, there is a clear and present danger of another big scandal whenever the next Snowden blows the whistle.
