At a meeting convened in 2011 to boost safety at Bangladesh garment factories, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) made a call: paying suppliers more to help them upgrade...
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The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more...
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So much for free speech in TX. WTF!?!?!?!?!? Occupy Austin's Overpass Light Brigade participates in the The Holiday Sing-Along & Downtown Stroll in...
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ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits. Their approach is working -- for them. Not so much for the students who pay...
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Huzzah!
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Here's a way for you to do your part against corporate abuse of workers by Wal-Mart ...find an action near you, support this action with your body,money ,and...
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An image of Obama from the leaked Honeywell document is captioned "HON has great relationships with Federal officials." In These Times has exclusively...
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Around 5,000 Spanish police officers marched through the streets of Madrid on Saturday to protest government austerity measures, including frozen pensions and the...
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If you think it's crazy that Karl Rove tried to steal the election this year only to be thwarted by Anonymous - then you haven't been paying attention to...
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The prices were 66 cents a gallon higher than they SHOULD have been ...
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This morning Earth First and Occupy in DC organized a tar sands solidarity action that is currently occupying TransCanada’s lobby firm. They occupied and...
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Help the people protest and save their land !
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This video is mandatory viewing to all supporters of the war(s). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCOqF8gZeh8&feature=related
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A coal company headed by a prominent Mitt Romney donor has laid off more than 160 workers in response to President Obama's election victory....
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Gigantic tea bag tool and Creationist numbskull Paul Broun (who serves on our congressional SCIENCE PANEL for Darwin's sake) ran unopposed. But lots of Georgia...
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David Siegel was one of those bosses who told their employees to vote for Mitt Romney in the presidential election. Siegel, 77, is the owner of a private time-share...
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I guess all those right wing pundits suck at math. Math has a liberal bias? Nah probably not.
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In an age when freedom is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule, imprisoning Americans in private prisons run by mega-corporations has turned into a cash...
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Hi all. Greetings from Lower Manhattan. Without power, access to the Internet or any kind of phone service, my news is nowhere near as interesting or as useful as my...
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