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Flush It! Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Must Be Stopped – Here's How We're Doing It
There are lots of ways to plug into the movement opposing Fast Track legislation and the biggest, most damaging corporate trade agreement in history.
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Mass Surveillance Is Fundamental Threat to Human Rights, Says European Report
Europe’s top rights body says mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.
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Bitcoin, the Blockchain and the Decentralized Path Forward
The emerging blockchain movement can build systems that incentivize carbon reductions, make renewable energy, increase microfinance, decrease costs in remittances and education, and lower barriers to entries across industries.
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In America's Battle for the Internet, The Whole World Is Watching
The fight for net neutrality, like the fight for an open and free Internet, is a clarion call for Internet users and content creators to defend what has made the the web one of the world’s greatest enablers of social and economic progress.
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Solar Is Now Cheaper Than Grid Electricity In 80% of Large U.S. Cities
Most Americans are unaware of the true financial value of solar today.
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Majority of U.S. Public School Students are in Poverty
The explosion in the number of needy children in the nation’s public classrooms is a recent phenomenon.
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Greek Voters Look to Syriza Party to End Austerity and Reclaim Economic Sovereignty
The left-populist party headed by Alexis Tsipras is positioned to win Greece’s elections Sunday on a progressive platform to reverse austerity cuts imposed on the country over the past half decade.
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Stakes Heighten for Europe's Economic Future As Left-Leaning Greece Prepares to Elect New Regime
A small European nation is on the verge of standing up to financiers that are literally strangling its economic surplus and imposing draconian cuts in the same of austerity, as standards of living have plummeted in the past five years.
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Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
The pay ratio between the highest- and lowest-paid worker-owners in cooperatives is between 3:1 and 5:1, compared with a ratio of roughly 600:1 in traditional corporations.
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Nationwide Actions Mark Fifth Anniversary of Citizens United
This Wednesday, activists and organizations across the country are getting loud, bold and creative as they demand the overturn of Citizens United.