The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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Justice Deferred: The Espionage Act and Reality Winner's Imprisonment
“I’ve never been an advocate-activist type of person, but this really permeated me," said Wendy Meer Collins, an advocate on behalf of the imprisoned whistleblower Reality Winner. "It just seemed so wrong.”
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What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About ‘Freedom’
If you ask the Koch brothers and their buddies—who slap those words "freedom" and "liberty" on pretty much everything they do—you’d get a definition that largely has to do with being “free” from taxation and regulation.
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Monsanto Has Been Ordered To Pay $80 Million After A Jury Found Its Weed Killer Caused A Man’s Cancer
The jury determined the popular weed killer was a "substantial factor" in the development of a California man's non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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What Black Lives Matter Activists Can Teach Us About the Pitfalls and Potential of Digital Organizing
Interviews with 11 Black Lives Matter social media page administrators highlight the challenges of scaling grassroots activism through digital organizing.
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Can This Anti-Corruption Crusader Become Slovakia's First Female President?
"We stand at a crossroads between the loss and renewal of public trust," said Zuzana Caputova, whose bid this Saturday for the Slovak presidency is being closely watched across Europe.
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Fury As Bolsonaro Orders Brazil Army to Mark 55th Anniversary of Military Coup
Victims of Brazil’s dictatorship are outraged after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ordered the country’s armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.
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What Democatic Socialism Is... And What It Is Not
There is no good reason for socialism to be a dirty word.
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Workers Strike Back: 2019 Sees The Return of Labor Activism
Today's explosion in worker actions reveals a broad opposition to neoliberalism that is more like a crowd-sourced and coordinated dance than a disciplined march. And it shows no signs of slowing down.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Maybe Wall Street Bankers 'Not the Best Authority' on Wellbeing of People and Planet
JP Morgan invested $195.66 billion in oil and gas companies between 2016 and 2018, making the Wall Street bank "the world's top funder of fossil fuels by a wide margin."
