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Former EPA Directors Tell Government To Act Now on Climate Change
The costs of inaction on climate change are undeniable. The current political debate in Washington is either detail, which we can resolve, or purposeful delay, which we should not tolerate.
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Unity sans Convergence (Political Self-organization Models for Hyperlinked Multitudes)
Do revolutions work like our brains do? Since the birth of the 15M movement, we’ve spent more than two years experimenting with radically new modes of mass organization.
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Launch of Green Tea Coalition Drives A Wedge Through Georgia's Tea Party
The across-the-spectrum Green Tea Coalition - including activists from the Tea Party Patriots, Occupy Atlanta and the NAACP - is uniting to challenge Koch Brothers-funded big business ideology.
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Bankrupt in Detroit: An Ominous Sign of What's to Come
What's happening to Detroit should not be considered an isolated incident — the product of corrupt government, crime, or mismanagement — but the result of economically unfair structural conditions that apply to the entire nation.
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Uruguay Blazes the Way As First Country to Legalize Marijuana
Uruguay's liberal president put political weight behind drug law reform, and now money from George Soros's Open Society Foundation is helping push the groundbreaking legal changes through congress.
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Greenland's Vote to Raise Corporate Taxes Deals Challenge to Global Mining Industry
Greenland's minister of business and natural resources helped turn taxing the value of minerals into a popular political cause — and voters recently decided against companies extracting their natural resources for free.
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AFL-CIO and Organized Labor: Let’s Talk About Building a Movement
With unions facing a not-so-gradual decline toward irrelevance, leaders are having “a come-to-Jesus moment.”
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Why Fruitvale Station Should Be Required Viewing For All Americans
Fruitvale Station, the latest entry in a growing list of movies that may help spark a civil rights movement in America, shows what the struggle of being black in modern America looks like.
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Reporting from Raleigh: 9 Ways to Organize the Next Civil Rights Movement
North Carolina's Moral Monday protests — where nearly 1,000 have been arrested in just 12 weeks — could be a way for the South to become progressive again, while cultivating strong community leaders to run for local office.
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Worldwide GMO Labeling Laws
Breakdown of GMO Labeling Laws in Each Country. Dozens of major countries, including the BRIC nations and nearly all of Europe, have mandatory labeling laws for genetically modified (GM) foods. The U.S., Canada and Mexico do not. Is there a disconnect here?