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10 Groups Building a Grassroots Movement for Economic Justice
From the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to Occupy Our Homes, these groups are galvanizing communities to action nationwide.
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How Michoacán's Armed Self-Defense Groups Are Retaking Power from Mexican Cartels
Mexican law forbids citizens from bearing most firearms, but 25,000 armed citizen self-defense groups adamantly declare it is their right to protect themselves and their communities against equally armed criminal groups.
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Occupy Monsanto Protesters Push Labeling Resolution at Annual Shareholder Meeting
For the first time ever, Monsanto shareholders convened to vote on a resolution to support GMO labeling.
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Wall Street’s Frightening New Plan To Become America’s Landlord
Banks, hedge funds and private equity firms have been amassing real estate holdings for a few years now in the wake of the foreclosure crisis, but their plan for wringing profit out of the rental market is just starting to draw real scrutiny.
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TransCanada Pipeline Explosion Shuts Off Gas For 4,000 Residents In Sub-Zero Temperatures
As TransCanada has been pushing for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Move Over Mainstream: This Is What New Populism Looks Like
Occupy Wall Street provided the first volleys, but we'll need much more popular education and greater popular mobilization to grow a movement.
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Children of Egypt's Revolution, Three Years Later, Struggle to Recover
In Egypt, where approximately one thousand people were killed during the 18-day uprising in January and February of 2011, the psychological effects of murders by Egyptian police are still present and being openly felt.
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Venture Capitalist Compares 'War On 1 Percent' To Nazi Anti-Semitism
Yes, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the novel, "Sex and the Single Zillionaire"—who is worth $8 billion—really said that.
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Poll: Majority Believe Income Gap Grew in a Decade, Want to Tax the Rich
A Pew poll shows two-thirds of Americans think the income gap between rich and poor in the U.S. has grown over the past decade, and most favor a tax increase on the nation’s wealthy.
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Mississippi Is 10th State to Consider Legislation to Ban Cooperation with NSA
With the introduction of the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, Mississippi became the tenth state in the country to consider legislation to make life difficult for the NSA’s ongoing mass surveillance programs.
