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This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.

After Rep. Greg Walden, the biggest recipient of pharmaceutical campaign cash in the last election cycle, met with Trump, the president decided to scrap his support for lower drug prices.

Queen & Slim is all of us in a time of crisis. Their crisis was evident; on the run from the law. Our crisis is the reality of what it means to be Black in America today. 

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Public sector worker in Argentina fight for better conditions.

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We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.

Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.

...the Trump administration has been seeking to expand mining on public lands and further loosen environmental rules under the banner of weaning the United States off importing minerals deemed “critical” to national security.