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Post-Capitalist Solutions: How Worker-Owned Tech Co-ops Are Boosting the Solidarity Economy
Worker ownership is about alienation versus empowerment. For human beings to be able to be their full selves, they need to have a say in their own affairs.
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Weeding Money From Politics, Maine Leads the Way On "Clean Elections" Governance
Maine, whose referendum on a Clean Elections law can ensure the state isn't represented by shady special interests, provides a model for how states can push back against big money in elections.
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Why Greece Is On the Brink Of Putting Life Before Debt
Greece is the target of a violent, illegal, and immoral mission aimed exclusively at shifting private debt onto the public sector.
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Justice for All: Seattle's Kshama Sawant, Leader in Fight for $15, Talks About Movement's Next Steps
"All [working] people are latent activists. But to make them into activists they need to feel something deep in their hearts – in their gut. At the end of the day it is the tangible struggles that masses of people come out to fight."
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"Freer Than I've Ever Been": Squatted Eco-Village Overshadows Royals' Magna Carta Celebrations
The Runnymede eco-village is as much about reimagining the future as it is about compensating the imbalances of Britain's past.
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The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street
Nearly four years after the precipitous rise of Occupy Wall Street, the movement so many thought had disappeared has instead splintered and regrown into a variety of focused causes.
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U.S. Government Forgives Billions In Student Loans Following Corinthian Colleges' Collapse
A government plan to wipe out loans for many of the students who attended the now-disgraced for-profit Corinthian Colleges raises serious questions about whether the White House or Congress should have done more to prevent the debacle.
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California’s Senate Just Passed America's Most Sweeping Climate Change Legislation
The dozen bills passed last week include reducing gas use on California’s roads by 50 percent.
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Oregon Farmers Defeat Monsanto In Historic Court Win Against GMO's
The mighty monolith was smacked down by Northwestern farmers.
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People’s Power Defends Detroit Homeowners
The battle to keep residents in Gratiot-McDougall homes.