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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Occupy Activist Faces a 7-Year Jail Term for “Assault” On Police Officer
Cecily McMillan, 25, was charged with assault in the second degree, a Class D felony in New York, for allegedly elbowing an NYPD officer in the head during an arrest.
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The Warren Proposal: Postal Banking Is Key Financial Reform In the Public Good
The postal financial services Senator Elizabeth Warren suggests are important first steps toward democratizing our economy.
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Seeking Climatic Shift, U.K. Pension Investments Are Starting to Undercut Big Oil
People invest money through pensions into industries that cause climate change, often unknowingly and against their own financial interest.
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It's Drought and Climate Change – Not Pot Growers – Killing the Salmon in Humboldt
Without rain in California, the water level won't rise, and so the salmon have spawned here, in water that is too warm, too full of sediment and too shallow.
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As Pipeline Protests Surge, California Weighs Risks of Importing Tar Sands and Fracked Gas
Four proposed oil-refinery projects in Northern California will likely increase the use of dirty tar sands crude from Canada and volatile oil fracked in North Dakota.
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Duke Energy Lobbied Hard Against Coal Ash Safety – Then Gave Us the Dan River Spill
If the EPA had acted quickly and assertively, Duke would have been required to clean up unlined dumps like the one currently spilling into the Dan River.
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Protesters March in Raleigh Igniting 2014 Moral Monday Movement
The Moral Monday protests transformed North Carolina politics in 2013, building a multiracial, multi-issue movement centered around social justice such as the South hadn’t seen since the 1960s.
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On Founders and Keepers of Occupy Wall Street
Last week, a power struggle within an Occupy collective emerged into the public realm when one member took sole ownership of the @OccupyWallSt Twitter handle.
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NATO 3 Acquitted of Terrorism Charges As Police Informants Lose At Their Own Game
Convicted on two counts of arson and “mob action” but acquitted on much more serious terrorism charges, the NATO 3 trial marks an important step forward helping to reshape public opinion and end the war on terror.
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Pussy Riot Joins Madonna, American Rock Stars, Calling for Freedom on Brooklyn Stage
"It's time for the rest of the world to be as brave as Pussy Riot," – Madonna
