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Fast Food, Slow Justice
Workers protest Yum! Brands firings.
Robin Peterson

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Litterers or Life-Savers?
Government prosecutes activists who leave water for immigrants
Kari Lydersen

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Your Crap, Our Compost
Squat and the earth shall grow
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Sisi Tang

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Granny Get Your Gun
Is America on the verge of a geriatric crime wave?
Nathan Comp

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Sewer Socialism Down the Drain?
Activists in Milwaukee fight to keep their city's water system in public hands.
Roger Bybee

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Budgets by the People
Participatory democracy, Brazil-style, is running into problems.
Michael Fox

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Solidarity Reunited?
Unions rally around shrunken UNITE HERE as it takes on its former ally.
David Moberg

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Small Towns vs. Nestlé
Rural residents organize to keep their water out of corporate water bottles.
Jenny Tomkins

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Anarchists Go to Church
Mount Hope files federal suit against Bash Back! over Sunday morning protest.
Rebecca Harris

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All-American Squatters
Take Back the Land is "liberating" foreclosed homes to fight homelessness.
Jake Thomas

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SEIU Fights Banks Over Bonuses
One of the largest unions in the country may alter corporations' executive pay practices.
Tim Brown

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Snapshot: Borderline Frustrations
Rachel K. Dooley

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The Aspiration of Global Zero
President Obama seeks a world without nuclear weapons, but there are signs a key treaty is unraveling.
Robert G. Gard

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Xe is the Problem
Keeping the corporation formerly known as Blackwater out of Skunk Hollow.
Jenny Tomkins

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Israel’s Center Does Not Hold
Netanyahu's coalition begins to govern, as the world awaits a two-state solution.
Ralph Seliger

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Reinventing Demons
The Obama administration plans a new round of 'public safety' programs in Latin America.
Jeremy Bigwood

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Flower Power
Colombian plantation workers are fighting an uphill battle to unionize and secure better working conditions.
David Moberg

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Putting a Stop to Stop Loss
Pentagon ends the back-door draft, but critics fear a return with Afghanistan surge.
Christopher Moraff

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Labor Limbo
Philadelphia museum guards fighting for union recognition highlight the potential power of "card check."
Daniel Denvir

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Students Won’t Sweat It
Under fire for alleged union-busting, Russell Athletic is losing university contracts around the country.
Micah Uetricht

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Czech Against U.S. Military Power
Activists successfully oppose a Pentagon radar base plan in the Czech Republic.
Joanne Landy

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Same-Sex Marriage in the Heartland
Iowa becomes the first state in the Midwest to extend the right to marry to gays and lesbians.
Jessica Pupovac

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Global Warming Accelerates
As sea levels rise faster than expected, political and social catastrophes loom.
Kari Lydersen

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Uncovering Haiti’s Hidden History
More than four years after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile, questions linger about Washington's involvement.
Judith Scherr
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