It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Unity sans Convergence (Political Self-organization Models for Hyperlinked Multitudes)
Do revolutions work like our brains do? Since the birth of the 15M movement, we’ve spent more than two years experimenting with radically new modes of mass organization.
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What Are Exxon, Shell And ConocoPhillips Doing With Their Billions In Q2 Profits? Lobbying, Of Course
Three of the five Big Oil companies released second quarter profits last week, raking in a combined $11.4 billion this quarter for a total of $31 billion on the year.
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Launch of Green Tea Coalition Drives A Wedge Through Georgia's Tea Party
The across-the-spectrum Green Tea Coalition - including activists from the Tea Party Patriots, Occupy Atlanta and the NAACP - is uniting to challenge Koch Brothers-funded big business ideology.
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Bankrupt in Detroit: An Ominous Sign of What's to Come
What's happening to Detroit should not be considered an isolated incident — the product of corrupt government, crime, or mismanagement — but the result of economically unfair structural conditions that apply to the entire nation.
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Uruguay Blazes the Way As First Country to Legalize Marijuana
Uruguay's liberal president put political weight behind drug law reform, and now money from George Soros's Open Society Foundation is helping push the groundbreaking legal changes through congress.
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Big protest at Chevron Richmond refinery is latest example of climate activists stepping up rallies and marches
More than 2,000 people marched to the gates of the Chevron refinery, where 210 people were arrested as part of a protest against the oil giant and other fossil fuel companies.
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Scott Walker's Crackdown on Free Speech Backfires
As news of more than 100 arrests at a Wisconsin singalong attracts statewide attention, the governor's approval rating has taken a plunge.
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Greenland's Vote to Raise Corporate Taxes Deals Challenge to Global Mining Industry
Greenland's minister of business and natural resources helped turn taxing the value of minerals into a popular political cause — and voters recently decided against companies extracting their natural resources for free.
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
A new report reveals the American Legislative Exchange Council has pushed more than six dozen bills this year in 34 states that oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and undermine environmental laws.
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AFL-CIO and Organized Labor: Let’s Talk About Building a Movement
With unions facing a not-so-gradual decline toward irrelevance, leaders are having “a come-to-Jesus moment.”
