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Shocking "Fit For Work" Deaths Across Britain Spark U.N. Investigation
Moira Drury died just over a fortnight ago after the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions claimed she was ineligible for disability benefits – even though she suffered from paralysis, epilepsy, diabetes, a failing bladder and depression.
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California Academy of Sciences Divests from Fossil Fuels
The Natural History Museum and 350.org launched a collaborative campaign calling on the country’s top science and natural history museums to dump all stocks in oil, coal and gas.
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“Don’t Owe, Won’t Pay”: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Debt Is Wrong
No street protests are necessary, no confrontations with riot police, to stop payment on a credit card or student loan – the financial system is vulnerable to a few million mouse clicks.
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Food Safety Group Sues U.S. Regulator for Withholding Information On GMO Crops
The lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety accuses the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of withholding information about GMOs for more than 13 years.
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Fighting Inequality In Seattle, Students Lead Protests to Change School and Transit Policies
We want all inequitable policies to be challenged.
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Beirut's "You Stink!" Garbage Protesters Dig In, Calling for Fall of Lebanese Regime
Clashes intensify as protests sparked by the city's garbage problem widen in scope, and the prime minister calls an emergency parliament session.
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Launching "Campaign Zero," Racial Justice Movement Demands Stricter U.S. Policing Laws
Leaders of influential civil rights movement release the most comprehensive set of policy proposals yet calling for federal and state laws to combat police killings.
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Greece’s Radical Leftist Prime Minister Resigns In Defeat
Alexis Tsipras fought the austerity, and the austerity won.
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The Long Sad Slide From Leading Civil Rights Organization to Anti-Black Lives Matter Group
How the group’s mission went from racial integration to black separatism — and eventually to lobbying on behalf of corporate interests and the police state.
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Explosion In Youth Homelessness Spurs Rise Of Sofa Surfing Across Britain
There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."