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Border Patrol Agent Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Mexican Teenager
Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.
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Mayan People's Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when Congress repealed legislation protecting Monsanto's GMO plant varieties in the Central American country.
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The Sustainable Development Goals: A Siren and Lullaby for Our Times
The inequality goal allows current trends of income concentration to increase until 2029 before they start to decline – and totally ignores the structure of an economic system that creates inequality.
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Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders and the Popular Demand for Systemic Change
Two men in their 70s have been sparking the imagination and passions of American progressives, both have been featured on the cover of Time magazine – and both agree that the system is broken and radical transformation is necessary.
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"Journey for Justice" From Selma to DC, Ends With Demand to Restore the Voting Rights Act
Clad in yellow shirts, hundreds of people streamed across the Arlington Memorial Bridge on September 15 and ended their nearly 1,000-mile trip at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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The New Battle In Seattle: How, Why and What the Teachers Won
The city's teachers prevailed this week because they made their strike is part of a greater struggle over the future of America’s cities and whether they will become semi-privatized playgrounds for the elites.
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How Do We 'Change Everything' Without Pitting Workers Against the Planet?
Those displaced after a “just transition” away from fossil fuels should be able to count on decent new green jobs and retraining.
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Former Black Panther Launches Urban Farm Giving Ex-Prisoners a Fresh Start
Veteran activist Elaine Brown is determined to transform a once-blighted, under-resourced neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., into a thriving urban farm business that employs former offenders.
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The Movement Lives On: 4 Years Later, Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of Its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices can impact institutions of power all over the world.
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The Ferguson Commission Won't Bring Social Change – Black Lives Matter Will
It just got a lot harder to pretend the suffering in Ferguson, Michael Brown’s death and the explosive reaction after his shooting weren’t all about race now.