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Greeks Vote "No" To Austerity In a Resounding Defeat to Troika and Banks
More than three out of five Greeks on Sunday decisively rejected a bailout deal proposed by the country's international creditors, which demanded new austerity measures in return for emergency funds.
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Banking for the People: How "The Revolutionary Pope" Could Transform Our Monetary System
We need a strategy to eliminate the financial parasite that is keeping us trapped in a prison of scarcity and debt.
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New Connecticut Law Forces Bosses Who Steal Workers’ Wages to Pay Them Back Double
By making the cost of breaking the law outweigh the cost of following it, business owners will be deterred from committing the crime in the first place.
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$15 an Hour NOW – Not 5 to 7 Years from Now
Municipal leaders should be commended for acknowledging the current wage is too low – but phasing in a higher wage over many years is unacceptable in an economy where costs of living are rising and wages are falling.
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The People's Test On Climate: Upsetting "Business As Usual" To Save Ourselves and Earth
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap.
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Massachusetts Home Care Workers Win $15/Hour Starting Wage – First In Nation
Tears of joy streaked the faces of cheering home care workers assembled in their Dorchester union hall last week as a decades-long struggle for recognition and a living wage culminated in a historic moment of celebration.
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Justice: same-sex marriage legal throughout the entire United States
bout time! Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States
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Obamacare Upheld By U.S. Supreme Court – Now What About America's 35 Million Uninsured?
“What the United States should do is join every other major nation and recognize that healthcare is a right of citizenship,” said presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who advocates a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
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Six Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
I traveled to Barcelona and Madrid last month to witness the historic elections firsthand, and to learn from Spain’s independent social movements – and what I saw was a whole new way of doing politics.