Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
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Lighting Up the Screen with the Social Justice Film Festival: Why Seattle?
The city's social justice roots are centuries old – and today Seattle is also home to more than 70 social justice organizations and more than a dozen progressive film festivals.
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New Hampshire Rebellion: Taking advantage of the right to revolt
This isn't just a right to revolt, it's a call to revolt, an outright slam against apathy and nonresistance.
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Arrested for Democracy: Inside 99Rise's Latest Civil Disobedience to Get Money Out
“We wanted to take action to dramatize the betrayal of the American people and show that we will resist and attempt to disrupt or at least expose pro-corruption politicians' ability to raise big money.”
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Building an Ark: How to Protect Public Revenues from the Next Meltdown
While the too-big-to-fail banks have collectively grown 37% larger since 2008, we are steamrolling toward the greatest financial disaster in world history, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.
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French Economist Wins Nobel Prize For Work "Taming Powerful Firms"
The 61-year-old began his influential studies on regulation and oligopolies in the 1980s – and last year scrutinized the pay and motivation structure in banking and other industries.
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U.S. Seed Libraries Mobilize to Protect Right to Share
Despite an arguably incorrect interpretation of Pennsylvania law, states are now considering adopting its seed library protocol – threatening to kill a fast growing seed library movement.
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Germany Abolishes College Tuition Fees
“We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of the parents."
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The Netroots Nation Music Project: Building A Soundtrack For This Generation
It's hope and raw unfettered emotion, pointed anger and power – it's louder than the din of political hectoring and a violent wake-up call to an apathetic youth.
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New Homeless Bill of Rights Could Legalize Sitting, Sleeping, Eating in Public
A coalition of over 125 social justice groups seeks to impact state laws that increasingly target basic rights of the homeless – such as eating and exchanging food in public.
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Federal Court Strikes Down Republican-Backed Voter ID Law In North Carolina
Ruling that "the right to vote is fundamental," a N.C. appeals court reinstated the right to register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day, and to vote outside one's home precinct.