The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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While Occupy Wasn’t Perfect, It Didn’t Fail Either
How smaller coalitions are more inclusive and better equipped to address state powers.
Michael Collins

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Occupy for the Long Haul
Why you can't build movements based on immediate gratification.
Andrew Bashi

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Book Review: Down the Up Escalator
Barbara Garson's new book puts the blame for the economic collapse where it belongs.
Jane Slaughter

Labor
This Thanksgiving, Spare a Moment to Consider Turkey Plant Workers
Bruce Vail

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American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness
This Thanksgiving, many American workers won't share in the bounty they helped create.
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

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A Historical Perspective on Occupy
Why Occupy is a continuation of the Left's struggle.
Neal Meyer

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Occupy’s Success Will Take a Lifetime
An organizer's perspective on the need for continued efforts.
Nick Espinosa

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Who Are The 99%?
A suggestion on how to build radically inclusive movements.
Asha Ransby-Sporn

Comics
A Very Wal-Mart Thanksgiving
Matt Bors
Video
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out The Case For Expanding Social Security
Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Homeland, Season 3, Episode 9: Bye Bye Brody
Brody returns just long enough for some furniture destruction and a training montage.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Comics
GOP African-American Outreach
Jeff Danziger

Labor
Boeing Holds Jobs Hostage in Two-Pronged Fight With State Government and Machinists
Roger Bybee

Feature
Generation Hopeless?
Occupy has left some Millennials questioning their place in social movements.
Matthew Richards

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House Hacks Away at Environmental Regulations
In two-day binge, the GOP greased the way for drilling and fracking.
Cole Stangler

Could Teller Organizing Help Halt Bank Abuses?
Sarah Jaffe

Labor
The Union President Who’s Helping Put Filibuster Reform in Motion
Mike Elk

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Suburban Homes Ablaze
How irresponsible development turned the American West into kindling.
David Sirota
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