The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.
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Disabled Activists Occupy Parliament As UK Government Looks "White and Rattled"
The high-profile protest is against the U.K. government’s latest assault on the disabled – which features plans to cut £30 per week from Personal Independence Payments.
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California Governor Announces Landmark $15 Minimum Wage Deal
“It’s a matter of economic justice, it makes sense, and it will help our entire state do much better for its citizens,” said Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, marking the largest victory to date of the national Fight for $15 movement.
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Three Times When the World Broke Open – and Two When It Might Again
Social change is seldom as incremental or predictable as many insiders suggest — by turning issues considered both unrealistic and politically inconvenient into matters that can no longer be ignored, they champion the impractical.
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Organizing Power: Fight for $15 To Join Chicago Teachers Union In April 1 Strike
This Friday will be the first time fast-food workers strike at the same time as teachers, as the Fight for $15 movement teams up with the Chicago Teachers Union in a one-day walk-out.
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What Happens When Neither Political Party Answers to the Bottom 90%?
Both Democrats and Republicans face a crisis of leadership and ideology, as well as a great opportunity for reinvention – whichever party first reinvents itself successfully will begin winning elections the way the Democrats did in the 1932-1968 era.
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Rockefeller Family Charity To Withdraw All Investments In Fossil Fuel Companies
A fund of the multi-billion dollar Rockefeller family said it would divest from all fossil fuel holdings “as quickly as possible" – singling out ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, which it called “morally reprehensible.”
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Bracing For A Brexit: Could Contradictory Positions On E.U. Spark A Progressive U.K. Movement?
With Eurosceptic Conservatives on one side of the debate and an international consortium of bankers led by Goldman Sachs on the other, where will the British people come down on the June 23 referendum to remain in, or leave, the E.U.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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The New Generation Gap
Three realities – social injustice on an unprecedented scale, massive inequities, and a loss of trust in elites – define our political moment, among young people more than anyone.
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Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry
Our leaders thought fracking would save our climate. They were wrong. Very wrong.