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The Progressive Majority
posted Jul 29, 2007 - The media often tell us that Americans are fundamentally conservative. A new report, the product of carefully compiled statistics from the past several decades, proves this story incorrect.
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How Powerful? :: Just the Facts
posted Jul 29, 2007 - Just how powerful are corporations anyway? some quick facts
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Commentary: Cooperators of the Prairies
by Jonathan Roweposted Jul 29, 2007 - Few images loom larger in the American psyche than that of the Wild West. In contrast to the myth, it was the cooperators who really made the West.
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Not Your Grandfather's SDS
by Joshua Kahn Russellposted Jul 29, 2007
- Students for a Democratic Society is reborn, working with veteran activists to build movements for today.
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USSF: We Saw Another World in Atlanta
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jul 29, 2007 - Poor people, young people, people of color, gays and lesbians, and all manner of people who believe “another world is possible, another U.S. is necessary” joined together by the thousands in Atlanta for the first U.S. Social Forum.
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Who's Standing Up?
posted Jul 29, 2007 - Look who's standing up to corporate power. David Solnit, Debra Harry, Bill Moyers, Alexia Salvatierra, Leo Gerard, Paula Wolff, Ward Morehouse, and more.
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Protecting Our Commons
by Sarah van Gelder, Doug Pibelposted Jul 29, 2007 - Keeping the air, the water, the Internet and other commons out of corporate hands and in our own. A YES! Magazine interactive graphic.
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Beyond Campaign Finance Reform And More
by Charlie Crayposted Jul 29, 2007 - People across the country aren't waiting for action from politicians and judges. Here are the hot spots where activists are getting corporations out of government and elections.
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Common Knowledge
by Jeff Kaplanposted Jul 29, 2007 - Whether the issue is water rights, big-box stores, meddling in local politics, or the taking of citizen's lands, almost every community in the United States - if not the world - is being harmed by excessive corporate power. Strategies of resistance need to invoke the people's right to exercise democratic power over corporations and governments.
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Democracy Unlimited
by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknapposted Jul 29, 2007 - In Arcata, California, and the rest of Humboldt County, non-local corporations are banned from politics.
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Communities Take Power
by Doug Pibelposted Jul 29, 2007 - Communities across the country are declaring citizens' right and duty to protect their water, land, local economy, and way of life, even if it means taking on the enormous power of corporations. Here are some of the peaceful revolutionaries who have stepped up.
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Who Will Rule?
by Michael Marx, Marjorie Kellyposted Jul 29, 2007 - Big corporation have become de facto governments, and the ethic that dominates corporations has come to dominate society. But, citizen movements are proving that we can take on corporate power, and together build a future that works for all life. This article gives hope on how to change the current corporate rule to citizen rule.
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Malik Rahim Speaks to the Freedom Caravaners
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jun 27, 2007 - Malik Rahim speaks about the Common Ground vision for its neighborhood that goes beyond restoring it to its previous state.
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Interview with Victoria Rodriguez
by Sarah van Gelderposted Jun 27, 2007 - Interview with Victoria Rodriguez from Southwest Organizing Project, while on the Freedom Caravan to the USSF, June 2007.
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Interview with Susan Gleason
by Diane Hornposted Jun 27, 2007 - Susan Gleason talks about the US Social Forum in this 30-minute interview with Diane Horn, producer and host of the Sustainability Segment of KEXP.
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