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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A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
A beautiful thing is happening: Advocates for racial justice and for environmental protection are coming together in a new way.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Black Lives Matter Movement Sees Series of Victories In Midwest Elections
The protest movement that formed in response to deadly shootings of African Americans by police saw oustings of prosecutors in Chicago and Cleveland on Wednesday.
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It Takes A Flint To Start A Fire
It takes something truly egregious to catalyze public action – we all now know the harm that was done and the toxic combination of neglect and manipulation that led to it. Will Flint be the tipping point?
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Act Out! [52] - Chris Hedges, Jill Stein, Peter Joseph, Shamell Bell & more Acting Out!
This week it’s our anniversary, and we’re celebrating with a look back and an inspiring look forward: We’re raising our firsts, our voices, and indeed, a glass in the name of creative activism and the continued fight for freedom and justice.
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Goodnight, and Good Luck: Al Jazeera America Shutters Its Doors
The core principle driving the journalism that distinguished Al Jazeera America online as a unique voice in a cluttered news landscape was the simple – yet radical – proposition that no single human life is worth less than any other.
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Acronym TV [57] - #OscarsSoWhite + Flint Solidarity
In this episode, an interview with #OscarsSoWhite creator April Reign on whether Chris Rock will Do The Right Thing, then Justin Wedes of Detroit Workers and Builders talks about solidarity actions with Flint, Michigan.
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Bernie Sanders Is A Candidate For, Not Of, Today’s Movements
Bernie's success thus far is a sign of what a sizable chunk of America is ready for, electorally speaking – democratic socialism – and it’s still hard to escape the feeling that he caught today’s social movements off guard.
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Latino Lives Matter: Stop Ignoring the Police Killings of Latinos In America
Few police shootings of Latinos make national headlines – a lack of attention and outrage that stems from a poor understanding of the history of state violence against them in the U.S.
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Message From Minneapolis: The Time To Reinvest in Poor Communities Is Now
American taxpayers spend $126 billion a year to fund police departments nationwide – but in places like Minneapolis, black people are underprotected and overpoliced, and politicians can no longer ignore the surging wave of activism.
