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Let's Wake Up, Open Our Eyes – and Shout
For the first time in human history we are witnessing a narrative unfold on a global scale – we need new agreements, we need new social compacts, we need new societal goals, we need a new story.
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Labor Rising: Why Worker Rights Are Human Rights
Courts and employers must heed the call to enforce already-guaranteed worker rights, mandate a living wage, and ensure humane working conditions for those whose work is so vital to our economy.
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Despite Election Day Losses, MayDay and the Anti-Corruption Movement Are Making Inroads
The People's Super PAC analyzes data from the 2014 election and begins working on a new way to end systemic corruption.
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Seattle City Council is Considering Another Groundbreaking Idea: A Public Bank
This city's government knows that the antecedents of democracy are material – the ability to provide services, the ability to absorb the impact of economic shifts, the ability to make citizens feel invested in their communities.
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Independent Or Not, Scotland Is Building A Media For the 99%
New Scottish media platforms are thriving as the region's eclectic, creative, evolving, non-corporate and critical news landscape looks to grow even further into a media challenging the status qu
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"Corporations Are Not People": A Lawyer's Book About Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood
After Citizens United, says Jeff Clements, “I felt that I couldn't just leave it at that, that democracy is really on the line, that the country is on the line – I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that humanity is on the line.”
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New York Bans Fracking In Landmark Decision
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet agreed Wednesday to prohibit the widely used gas-drilling technique in the state, citing health issues and dubious economic benefits.
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The U.S. and Cuba are Now on Equal Terms for the First Time in Generations
For most of the half-century since the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations, Washington fought a war of economic attrition that affected millions.
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The Wizard of Odds: Trend Forecaster Talks Third Party Politics and the Next Occupy
Suppose for a moment that everyone in the Occupy movement was in a jacket and tie and behaving to the norms of corporate or cultured society. Would the police go in and beat the shit out of them?
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Waiting for Santa Klaus In Romania, All Eyes Turn to Incoming Germanic President
He's friends with Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel, a best-selling author, and has a wife who cooks excellent meatball soup. Romania is ready for its Transylvanian president with German flare and know-how.