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"Your staff and others knew that the water in the Flint River was poison -- but you decided that taking over the city and "cutting costs" to "balance the budget" was more important than the people's health." Michael Moore

Breaking up the biggest financial institutions would reduce the level of financial monopolization in America and the corresponding political influence of the largest banks. Too few banks control too much of our money. Not only is it risky for the reasons stated above, but it gives them even more influence in Congress. At the end of 2014, the largest four banks held 35% of all bank deposits. These same four banks spent at least $21 million lobbying the federal government.

Under NAFTA, companies can sue governments that put investments at risk through regulation. If it proceeds, the case will go in front of an international tribunal.

I believe that these challenges, missions and tasks can be comprised of and developed in two principal parts: 1) Defend the Bolivarian government HOWEVER NECESSARY AND AT ALL COST. 2) The creation and/or strengthening of communal/people’s self-sustainable structures at the margins of the state.

Nature offers a panoply of ways to determine an organism’s sex. How can such a fundamental property be so variable?

Hollywood stars play all the major roles in the film, but it is no puff piece for the 1 percent. After watching “The Big Short” and talking to viewers, it’s hard to argue against Sanders’ demands to increase taxes on the billionaires and break up the banks, and use the revenue to fund better health care and education.

Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception.

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Lessons the climate movement can draw from Black Lives Matter.

The upsurge of protest in communities of color against the increasingly visible pattern of unrestrained police brutality revealed in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, combined with the rise of student activism over the climate on a variety of campuses in recent months have evoked memories of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.