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Occupy Wall Street

'We are the 99%': But Richest 1% Will Soon Own Two-Thirds Of World's Wealth

Occupy Oakland General Strike on October 2, 2011. (photo/cc/Brian Sims)

Because 'Corporate Media Ignores Rise of Oligarchy,' Sanders Says, We Must Not

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We need to ask the hard questions that the corporate media fails to ask."

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Yanis Varoufakis on Global Capitalism & How Trump’s Tax Plan is Class War Against the Poor

Democracy Now!

"Class war. It’s an out-and-out class war waged against the poorest, the weakest, the disenfranchised—the very same people that Donald Trump appealed to in order to get elected."

Critics say the gift is a tax cut for the richest Americans.

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'A Revolution': Philly DA Candidate Seeking to End Mass Incarceration Wins Race

Nika Knight, staff writer

'What was that sound? Nothing less than the stirrings of a whole different kind...

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Demonstrations Against Police Violence Occupy Streets in US and UK

People's Summit Offers Hope for a Movement Bigger Than Bernie

Armed with Policy Solutions and Populist Rage, Campaign Vows to 'Take on Wall Street'

Verizon Strike Surges as Workers Demand Right to 'Make a Decent Living'

Daniel Berrigan Dead at 94

600+ Arrests in Nation's Capital Aimed at Rapidly 'Shifting Political Weather'

'Up All Night' Protests Sweep France as 100,000 Join Pro-Democracy Movement

Eggs Fly in Iceland as Panama Papers Spark Populist Anger in the Streets

45 Years After COINTELPRO, FBI Still Thinks 'Dissent is the Enemy'

The Conservative Playbook for Keeping ‘Dark Money’ Dark

Student 'Aid' Industry Parade Crashed by Debtors Demanding Free Higher Ed

Terrorism 101: Occupy and Student Groups Labeled 'Extremist Threat' by Police

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Cecily McMillan Released

Occupy activist Cecily McMillan has been released from Rikers Island after serving 58 days of her three-month sentence. Describing a dehumanizing world "where words like freedom and rights don’t even exist," she read a statement on behalf of other female inmates calling for better access to health care, drug treatment and education "in the interests of returning the facility to its mission and restoring dignity to its inmates. "I am inspired by the resilient community I have encountered in a...

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Public Citizen

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Headlines #ReplaceNAFTA Day-of-Action Event: Millions Nationwide Call for Successful Renegotiation to Eliminate Job Outsourcing Incentives, Add Strong Labor and Environmental Terms

#AllOfUs

25 Millennials Occupy Speaker Ryan’s Office to Demand He Publicly Un-Endorse Trump & Reject GOP’s Dog-Whistle Racism

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

On 45th Anniversary of Break-In That Exposed COINTELPRO, 60 Groups Demand Congressional Commission to Investigate FBI & DHS

Sierra Club

Coalition of Advocates for the Environment, Labor, Health and Native Hawaiians Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership at Trade Talks on Maui

Philly Coalition for REAL (Racial, Economic, and Legal) Justice

Philly Police At War With Black Lives Matter Activists

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)

Threats in Ukraine: Coup, Fascism and War — And Western Culpability

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Richard Eskow

David Graeber, 1961-2020: History is a Living Weapon

Peter Dreier, Dick Flacks

Progressive Patriotism for July 4

Ann Larson

Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt

Ed Rampell

Michael Moore Turns Up the Heat in Fahrenheit 11/9

Will Bunch

Dying From ALS, Ady Barkan Will Save U.S. Democracy if It's the Last Thing He Does

Josh Hoxie

Just How Rich are the Ultra Rich?

Larry Beinhart

Trump Might Be Leading the US to Another Meltdown

Jeremy Brecher

The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition?

Hilary Wainwright

The Spirit of 1968 Is Inextinguishable —Even 50 Years Later

Roy Eidelson

The DCCC’s Mind Games and the Ballad of Roy Moore