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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Folk the Banks
U.K.-based Occupation Records, born out of Occupy London, will release its debut compilation on June 4, and a small sampler of songs is available now to whet your appetite.
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We Are All Illegals
Outernational is not your typical rock ‘n roll band: the five-piece activist rock group flavors their music with mariachi and Spanish shout outs, recently released an album slamming U.S. immigration policy, and has even played gigs at Native American reservations.
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Europeans to Rise Up May 12
We are united in our demands: the welfare of the 99% must be respected.
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Music Carried Occupy Nigeria
Whether Occupy Nigeria was a successful revolution or no, is a debate I’ll leave to pundits.
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Tar Sands Production In America Is Closer Than You Think
Tar sands in Utah, like in Canada, contain a form of petroleum called bitumen that can be refined into gasoline. But the process is costly, energy-intensive, and on a life-cycle basis releases far more global warming pollutants than conventional oil refining operations.
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Our Government, the Keyboard Cops
If CISPA enters into U.S. law alongside the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act – which gives the government the power to detain any American for anything forever – fundamental civil liberties will be threatened in a way that no democracy can tolerate.
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Four Poems for an Occupy Spring
Following the dispossessed to Zuccotti / I never looked up at what blocked the sun / from warming the rebel camp, / The shadow of a country / that lost its spine, Consumed by smoke and zealotry.
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Fighting Austerity, Reclaiming our City
Between May 10 and May 15, New Yorkers — in solidarity with global calls to action from around the world — will carry out Another City is Possible, Another World is Possible, a week of actions connecting the city budget to austerity measures around the world, all culminating on May 15 at 6 p.m. in a mass convergence in Times Square.
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The Sounds of the L.A. Riots
Reflecting back on 1992 uprising, so much in Los Angeles has changed. But so much has also remained the same.
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Illustrating the Revolution
Seth Tobocman, one of the founding editors of the political comic book World War 3 Illustrated, has used his illustrating skills to challenge our warped system.
