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In Government Shutdown, "Nonessential" Federal Workers Are First To Go
On Tuesday, military recruiters, drug enforcement agents and National Weather Service meteorologists will be reporting for duty, while environmental engineers, food inspectors, labor statisticians and off-duty firefighters will not.
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The Path to the RealWorld™, If We Can Find It
There are two spaces: the Internet and the RealWorld™, and many perceive them as discrete, separate compartments.
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The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece
The crowd-sourced documentary "Into the Fire" chronicles immigrants' lives in Greece during recent years of financial and political crisis in which they've faced attacks by neo-Nazis and suffered under corrupt state law.
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How Nordic Europe Is Guarding the Commons
Nordic Everyman Rights give people in most Scandinavian and Baltic countries guaranteed access to nature's bounty, demonstrating a strong model for reclaiming the commons.
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So You Say You Want a Workplace Revolution?
Organizations working for social justice can become living examples of the world they're working to create, if they're willing to take the lessons of social movements to heart.
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U.S. Government Begins "Tea Party" Shutdown
The extreme faction of the Republican party forced a stalemate over health care that has shut down the government.
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The Revolutionary Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has focused on infrastructure investment and self-determination for the people in his city, emphasizing local empowerment to “build a base of autonomous power."
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A Credit Union in Puget Sound Elects a Different Future
The Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union in Washington State has helped locals divest from JPMorgan Chase and now holds $30 million of the community's assets.
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Europe Seeks to Ban Deep-Sea Trawling
Deep-sea trawlers in Europe operate at a financial loss and rely on taxpayers to foot the bill for the destruction of the ocean floor.
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House Democrats Demand Hearing on Massive Oil and Gas Spills in Colorado Floods
Two congressmen are trying to investigate toxic spills caused by massive flooding in Colorado, where oil and gas well drilling has doubled since 2006.