The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Manifesto for a Naïve Activism: We Only Have One Planet, But Lots of Banks
A mentally ill president can see out the windows of the Oval Office, out in streets, the 99% and the Black Lives and the Kayaktivists and the Pussy Power and the Dreamers and the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
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One Sign Police Protests Are Working: States are Changing their Laws
A map of the 79 laws states passed in 2015 and 2016.
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NYPD Officers Accessed Black Lives Matter Activists' Texts, Documents Show
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal details of how police posed as protesters amid unrest following the death of Eric Garner.
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The New Legislation Targeting Protestors
A wave of bills aimed at curtailing protests and demonstrations has started to make its way through state legislatures across the country.
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College Students Plan Nationwide Walkouts to Protest Donald Trump's Inauguration
The protests against Donald Trump on his Inauguration Day could stand out as one of the largest counter-inaugural protests in U.S. history – and organizers insist this is only the beginning of a broader resistance movement.
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How Chicago Teachers and Black Lives Matter Are Partnering to Build a Bigger Movement
Extracting wins from the boss has never been easy—and union membership hovering at a low 11 percent isn’t making it any easier. But a good way to boost our numbers and power is to partner with people who are organized in other ways, building a broader movement as we build our unions.
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Occupy Is Everywhere
The return of encampments as a tactic is telling us something, if we’d care to listen.
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#Staygrounded Action In London Makes Airports New Focal Point for Social Justice
A frequent flyer busy on her cellphone steps over the bodies on the floor as she checks in at Heathrow Airport, part of a “die in” last week staged by Reclaim the Power, which also hosted a frequent flyer check-in for the 1%.
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Occupy the Cinema: With The Birth of A Nation, Nat Turner Lives!
Nate Parker's new film isn’t just a trip through history, but a reminder of now – if "12 Years A Slave" was a humanist drama and "Selma" was stoic strength, "Birth of a Nation" is a garbage can flying through a pizzeria window.
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5 Years After Zuccotti Park, Occupy Movement Is Driving America's Political Change
The next time someone says the Occupy movement is dead, ask them this: “Do you really think serious activists for social and economic justice were going to spend the rest of their lives living in tents in parks?”
