Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Can Activists Win the PR Battle With the Fossil Fuel Industry?
There is ample evidence about ways that local and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as the company responsible for building the Keystone XL pipeline, are working together to undermine peaceful political protest.
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13 Weeks, 1,000 Arrests and the Moral Monday Movement Sweeping North Carolina
“Mountain Moral Monday” in Asheville on August 5 drew more than 10,000 people, as actions are traveling from Raleigh to multiple Congressional districts and counties in North Carolina.
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Speaking of Resistance, The Gezi Park Forums Have Spread Across Turkey
The June 15 police crackdown that violently pushed protesters out of Gezi park has given occasion to organize more elaborate “forums” and “people’s assemblies” in dozens of public parks of Istanbul and across Turkey.
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Thousands of Protesters Descend on ALEC Convention In Chicago
A coalition of labor, community and environmental groups is making it clear that the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council isn’t welcome in the union town.
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The Tide Is Turning Against Privatization in Britain
Despite governments’ slavish devotion to privatization, the British public aren’t at all convinced. A recent poll shows four in five people think there should be an in-house bid when a public service is put out to tender.
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We Are All Connected: Hearing The Message of Indigenous Tribes
In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalo for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.
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The August 24 March on Washington: Why We Need a New Civil Rights and Labor Movement
Even with the greatest employment crisis since the 1930s and an unemployment rate for blacks that remains double that of whites, there is no talk of legislation for a federal jobs program to be paid for by taxing the rich.
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Egypt's Tamarod Leaders Step Up: "From Protest Movement To Pressure Movement"
Tamarod launched the petition that got 22 million Egyptian signatures and led to President Mohamed Morsi's ouster. Now the young group is using its street appeal and new political weight to become part of the reform process.
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Unity sans Convergence (Political Self-organization Models for Hyperlinked Multitudes)
Do revolutions work like our brains do? Since the birth of the 15M movement, we’ve spent more than two years experimenting with radically new modes of mass organization.
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Big protest at Chevron Richmond refinery is latest example of climate activists stepping up rallies and marches
More than 2,000 people marched to the gates of the Chevron refinery, where 210 people were arrested as part of a protest against the oil giant and other fossil fuel companies.