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Immigrant Detainees' Hunger Strike Targets Legal "Grey Area"
by Rachael Stoeveposted Mar 14, 2014 - A hunger strike in a Washington state detention facility draws attention to a facility where most U.S. laws don't apply.
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Architect of Bush Administration’s No Child Left Behind Law: “I Was Wrong”
by Scott Nineposted Mar 14, 2014 - In her new book, Diane Ravitch—one of the leading thinkers behind the controversial Bush-era law—explores how the faulty logic of high-stakes testing, charter school expansion, and privatization hinders education.
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These Seattle Teachers Boycotted Standardized Testing—and Sparked a Nationwide Movement
by Diane Brooksposted Mar 14, 2014 - Parents, students, and teachers all over the country have joined the revolt to liberate our kids from a test-obsessed education system.
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Video: Can Co-Ops Curb Poverty In New York City?
by Laura Flandersposted Mar 14, 2014 - Of the many businesses in New York, only 23 are worker co-ops. But those that exist have a strong record of raising wages and reducing poverty, especially in low-income communities like city councilmember Maria del Carmen Arroyo's South Bronx district.
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W. Virginia's Grassroots Response to Water Crisis: A Movement in the Making?
by Dana Kuhnlineposted Mar 13, 2014 - Community responses to the Elk River chemical spill draw on West Virginia's long, proud history of grassroots work for environmental and economic justice.
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Typhoon Haiyan Survivors Dance to Pharrell Williams—and They Are Incredible
posted Mar 13, 2014 - Want to see a different side of Tacloban City's destruction? These survivors’ moves will change how you think about resilience after chaos.
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People Over Profit: Why These Two Small Countries Stood Up to Big Mining
by Robin Broad, John Cavanaghposted Mar 12, 2014 - If the governments of Costa Rica and El Salvador can resist the mining industry, maybe we all can.
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Seattle Council to Governor: Protect this City (And the Climate) from Oil Trains
by Molly Ruskposted Mar 11, 2014 - Beyond the dangers of derailment and explosions, Seattleites are worried about oil-by-rail shipping's effect on the climate. Here's what they did about it.
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A Happy Life or a Meaningful One—Do We Really Need to Choose?
by Jill Suttie, Jason Marshposted Mar 11, 2014 - Researchers continue to debate whether people face a genuine trade-off between seeking a happy life and a meaningful one.
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John Lewis’ Moving Graphic Novel Brings the Civil Rights Struggle to a New Generation
by Valerie Schloredtposted Mar 06, 2014 - In the tradition of “Maus” and “Persepolis,” “March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights.
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Jon Stewart on the "Insanity" of Buying Seafood with Food Stamps
posted Mar 06, 2014 - What do right-wing TV anchors think low-income people should eat? Not salmon, apparently.
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This Is What Happened When Scholastic Tried to Bring Pro-Coal Propaganda to School
by Bill Bigelowposted Mar 06, 2014 - “The United States of Energy” was a colorful series of lessons on the advantages of coal, aimed at 4th-graders—and sponsored by Big Coal. Here’s how educators and activists worked together to get it out of classrooms.
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Teenage Defender of First Nations Rights Becomes Literal Superhero
by Christopher Zumski Finkeposted Mar 05, 2014 - Shannen Koostachin, a teenage activist who died before ever seeing the results of her work, has inspired a new hero in the DC Universe.
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Meet the Ambassadors from Canada's Indigenous Fossil Fuel Resistance
by Kristin Moeposted Mar 05, 2014 - In 1885, a revolutionary leader wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In the "genocidal" wilderness of Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun.
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Infographic: The Math Error Behind 30 Years of Education Policy
by Doug Pibelposted Mar 05, 2014 - An influential study's failure to consider factors like poverty, race, and immigration concealed the fact that scores were improving.
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