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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The Global Banking Game Is Rigged – And the FDIC Is Suing
Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps – which are now a $426 trillion business.
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Pipeline Protest Leaders in British Columbia Vow to Maintain Right-Of-Way Blockade
The Unis’tot’en Action Camp was first put up in 2010 after industry proposed a gas pipeline and a liquefied natural gas plant.
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News Roundup: Corporations Demand Carbon Cap, While Harvard Professors Urge Divestment
Landmark UN analysis concludes that a global roll-out of clean energy would shave only a tiny fraction off economic growth while diverting hundred of billions of dollars away from fossil fuels.
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Grassroots Group Closed Two Chicago Coal Plants — and Is Now Going for Second Act
We have a chance to make our voices loudly heard regarding the safety hazards of opening a new dirty, metal-shredding facility in our community.
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Tear Gas Unleashed As Tens of Thousands In Paris and Rome Protest Austerity
Tens of thousands of people took part in protests in central Paris and Rome, organized by hard-left parties opposed to government economic reform plans and austerity measures.
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Trial of Occupy Activist Struggles to Find Jurors Impartial to Protest Movement
A series of potential jurors voiced opposition to Occupy Wall Street as Cecily McMillan, 25, faces seven years in prison for assault.
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All the Presidents' Bankers: How A Century of Wall Street Financiers Purchased Democracy
In All the Presidents' Bankers, Nomi Prins writes a painstakingly researched history of the financial industry's collusion with the White House to create a self-serving United States financial policy.
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Corporate Profits and the Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent
New research finds that richest 0.1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of the pie, dramatically expanding their portion of the country's wealth in three decades.
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The Ninis Rebellion: Protests Escalate As Frustrations Mount For Spain's Unemployed Youth
"Right now the future of Spain's youth looks pretty black. The country is not creating anything. With minimal job opportunities, many young people are going to other countries to find work.”
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Artists Target Drone Operators With A Giant Portrait of One of Their Victims
The portrait is entitled #NotABugSplat – a reference to the term “bugsplat,” used by drone operators to dehumanize victims of their missile strikes.
