Over the last several decades we've seen a developing merger of the corporations and the federal government, a process that has leaped forward with the recent financial crisis. No
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State governments across the country are simultaneously carrying out a frontal attack on the working class of America. The epicenter of this coordinated attack is the Rust Belt
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Thoreau wasn't just a dreamer. He knew hopes and dreams and visions of a better world, of a just world, were possible
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Societal change cannot occur until the American people achieve a vision of the kind of new society that is possible and that they want to have. In America vision has played a
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CHICAGO: Opposition to the FBI"s harassment of anti-war and international solidarity activists has now grown to the point that members of the U.S.
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Melissa Hentley, now 26 years old, was born with down syndrome. Lucille Jones, her grandmother, raised her from birth. Things went
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"No government can serve the interest of different economic and social classes with different interests and be fair. Whose interest is our political system serving at this time?
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It belongs to you.
* It belongs to the revolution for a New America.
It prints the truth, always.
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The eruption we are facing in the Midwest, and in the Rust Belt in particular, is proving to not be about a budget deficit or trying to
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Hundreds of people from communities across Michigan gathered in Benton Harbor, Michigan on April 27 to rally against the
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I was on Detroit's far east side, driving down a neighborhood street to interview Elizabeth Williams, my former student at Osborn High School
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Editor's Note: Ohio has an official unemployment rate of around 9%. According to the Ohio AFL-CIO, Executive PayWatch, "Ohio-based
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This column will periodically report on the latest developments in automation and robotics around the world from nano-robotics to large-scale in
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Over 100 students and community members gathered on April 9 at UC Merced at a forum called "Abolishing Homelessness", organized by UC faculty and
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Last year the CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) reopened it 's waiting list for the first time since 1999. On the first day, 60,000 people applied. By
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"The goose that laid the golden egg in America is free markets and capitalism" says Larry O 'Neal, the majority leader in the Georgia State
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In a major victory for those fighting back against the foreclosure crisis, mortgage and foreclosure giant Fannie Mae began talks
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Amazing, isn't it. I pay taxes. You pay taxes. But General Electric, the largest corporation in the US with billions in profits each year, will pay no taxes this year. None
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As federal and local budgets for much-needed social services are cut, the homeless advocacy communities of Washington, DC along with those
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My childhood
Detroit
I
Slipped
you off
easily
as
a wet garment -
Yet -
beneath my bones
you remain
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On March 25th, 2011, due in significant part to the efforts of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, the eyes of progressives and advocates for the rights
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All across the Rust Belt, cities are tearing down working-class housing - in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Detroit. Nearly $2 billion
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Benton Harbor is a community which has been abondoned, kicked, beaten and suffocated. No population should have to endure for decades what
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The laborers are finally taking on a new vitality. Unionists and their supporters are winning big fights in Wisconsin. The U.A.W.has taken up social justice and
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It is exceedingly unfortunate that we have troops fighting for "Democracy" oversees while "Democracy" is being stripped from citizens at home. Gov. Snyder
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A rose by any other name smells just as sweet. The coup that overthrew democ-racy in Benton Harbor, Michigan and established a dictatorship called
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