Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Making Our Arrests Count
We don’t always choose when we are arrested, and we don’t always have control over how it is depicted in the press, but we do have some power over what kinds of battles we choose to wage and how we choose to wage them.
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Changing the Climate in Our Schools
Tennessee just became the fourth state -- following Louisiana, Texas, and South Dakota - to pass a law that requires global warming to be taught as one of a number of "scientific controversies."
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Interview: The Editor of Adbusters Shares New Thoughts on the Movement
Kalle Lasn, founder and editor of Adbusters magazine, is largely credited for conceptualizing and starting the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. "I don't think anything can stop these young people," he said.
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Breaking: BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the U.S. regulators and Congress. April 20 marks the second anniversary of the Gulf oil disaster.
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Bank of America Hoax Confuses Executives, the Media
The spoof website, YourBofA.com, is an open call to American taxpayers to begin considering what they will do after a bailout, when they'll have a chance to become Bank of America's majority owners.
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Occupy Amsterdam Sets the Record Straight
Wary of being unfairly portrayed in the media, an occupier unfurls the story of the occupation of the stock Amsterdam stock exchange, including mixed messages from law enforcement, evictions and the pitching and unpitching of many tents.
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Wide Awake and Occupying Central Park
At New York City's first citywide assembly, held last weekend in Central Park, hundreds came together from across the boroughs to discuss the next phase of the Spring Awakening.
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Take Me Out to the Tax Game
To commemorate Tax Day, the Tax Dodgers went to bat for the 1%.
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Occupy Portland: On Trial, but Enjoying Public Support
As jury candidates are interviewed for the trial of a Portland Occupier, broad public support for the movement is revealed.
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Book Review: More Powerful Than Dynamite
In his new book about New York's radicals and plutocrats of 1914, Jones reminds readers that the incessant repetitions of history mean nothing unless historians lift them out of the obscurity to which they've been consigned and magnify them for all the world to see.
