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A note from the Media Bits and Bytes crew: The FCC will end net neutrality unless millions act to save it. We urge you to join and promote protests at Verizon stores on December 7, and share the video below far and wide.

A history of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip examines what military formulas are used to control Palestinian lives.

Broadening the definition of economy also puts people back into the system and empowers us. We have opportunities every day to build economies that lift each other up and spread joy.

A review of some of the bids to woo Amazon’s HQ2 to other cities and states shows it’s not all about the money. In some cases democracy itself is a bargaining chip.

“We have enough soldiers on the streets,” Guerrero recalled Flores’ life-changing counsel. “We need soldiers to fight for our communities.”

During a early November week-end, nearly 80 local leaders gathered at Debs Park in Los Angeles, to begin framing a justice-based vision of how the second largest city in the United States can go fossil fuel free by 2025. We brought together a spectrum of organizers from the frontlines of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, labor and food justice, and more.

A photographic exhibit reveals long-unseen images of the Chicano community at a time of political upheaval and demands for civil rights.

Professor Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, questions whether President Rodrigo Duterte is still fit for office.

"As organizations that represent and protect voters, we are deeply concerned that PILF’s threats will scare election administrators into performing ill-conceived or illegal list maintenance programs, in violation of federal law."

Illiteracy rates are high in Chicago, and Open Books is working to fill the void.