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"Withhold your vote from anybody who doesn't pledge to remove the corrupting influence of money from politics," says tireless activist and author Lawrence Lessig, whose new campaign Rootstrikers aims to reform the root of our political system. » More
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"I think the film speaks for itself," says Canadian documentarian Luc Côté, referring to his latest film, You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo. "You don’t have to hammer the point in. We just needed to be witnesses." » More
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"There is a ferocious class war going on, but for the most part it’s being fought by one side," says Tom Morello, the former Rage Against the Machine guitarist who now plays solo as The Nightwatchman. "In Madison, people fought back on a scale that I haven’t seen in my lifetime." » More
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In typical foul-mouthed Citizen Radio style, hosts Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein tell us why there's no issue they won't laugh at, why activism requires "passion and screaming," and why we need publicly funded elections to claim America is a democracy "with a straight face." Also, why they watch Glee. » More
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"My mother always used to say, 'Never insult the guy holding the gun,'" says feminist blogger, writer and activist Sady Doyle, the founder of Tiger Beatdown. "She knew me well enough to know that, if someone ever pulled a gun on me, I would mouth off to him." » More
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"The world will never be a perfect place," says Jason Glaser, an American activist and filmmaker whose work examines the impact of global agriculture on Latin American workers. "But it is unconscionable how we treat the people and environment that produce our goods." » More
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"Old Twilight Zone episodes are parables about fear and hatred tucked into 23-minute tales," says Justin Krebs, co-founder of the progressive national network Living Liberally. "They are...concerned about how humans treat the least among us, and are as anti-xenophobic as they are anti-fascist." » More
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Young people "need to check that they’re being compensated fairly and equally for the job they’re doing," says pay equity activist Lilly Ledbetter, for which the 2009 Fair Pay Act is named. "If they’re not, then they need to do something about it rather than let it build up year after year. Because once you get behind, you cannot catch up." » More
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"The money from drugs permeates many facets of economic life in Mexico—most estimates put the drug business at $50 billion per year," says Molly Molloy, who maintains an influential listserv dedicated to tracking violence in Juárez, Mexico. "What will replace it? What can replace the human desire to seek escape from the pain of poverty and hopelessness? I do not have an answer." » More
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"I am very worried that the global response to Haiti’s needs may not prove fruitful over the long term," says Marie Saint Cyr of the nonprofit Lambi Fund of Haiti. "There is a convergence toward creating another elite body to oversee the 'reconstruction in Haiti.' " » More
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