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For Sale: The Sacred Center of the Sioux Universe
by Winona LaDukeposted Aug 22, 2012 - The site of Pe’ Sla has been privately owned since 1876, but indigenous people have always been free to worship there. All that could change on August 25, when the land is set to be auctioned off.
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A Walk to Heal the Tar Sands
by Kristin Moeposted Aug 20, 2012 - Take an 8-mile trek with indigenous groups through one of the world's largest ecological dead zones, and you might find something lifegiving.
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Washington's Wall Street Sugar Daddies
by Hillary Lehrposted Aug 14, 2012 - Who’s lining the pocket of your representatives? Here’s a tool you can use to find out.
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America’s Deficit Attention Disorder
by David Kortenposted Aug 10, 2012 - Money is the least of our problems. It’s time to pay attention to the real deficits that are killing us.
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Eve Ensler: Freedom Starts With a “V”
by Madeline Ostranderposted Aug 09, 2012 - The “Vagina Monologues” author on why knowing your body can shake up the world.
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5 Good Ideas from Occupy’s National Gathering
by James Trimarcoposted Aug 07, 2012 - Occupiers used the National Gathering to trade ideas about what was working and what wasn’t. The 5 ideas profiled below show a movement determined to adapt and stay vibrant.
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A Critical Mass for Real Food
by Anim Steelposted Aug 06, 2012 - The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making. There’s a new way of thinking taking off.
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Fighting Coal While Supporting Miners?
by John C. Bergposted Aug 03, 2012 - Can you fight austerity and climate change at the same time?
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Occupy Los Angeles Blends Art & Activism
by James Trimarcoposted Aug 01, 2012 - The writing’s on the wall—literally. Occupiers in L.A. take to a new medium and spread words of protest with chalk.
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What Can Change When We Learn to See Each Other
by Akaya Windwoodposted Aug 01, 2012 - Here’s my invitation to you: Let’s take a month and intentionally notice those we would normally not see. Let’s interrupt old patterns of not looking into the eyes of “those people”—whoever they are to you.
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Bidder 70: The Tim DeChristopher Story
by Samantha Herndonposted Aug 01, 2012 - Last year, climate activist Tim DeChristopher went to jail for bidding $1.7 million (that he didn't have) to save 22,000 acres of public land from corporate extraction.
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Syria: Lamp in the Storm
by Michael Naglerposted Jul 30, 2012 - How can we can create the right vision to support indigenous nonviolence and unarmed civilian peacekeeping?
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The Power of Training for Direct Action
by George Lakeyposted Jul 26, 2012 - Training for acts of civil disobedience can delve deeper than the actions themselves.
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Think Small: A New Housing Model
by Doug Pibelposted Jul 24, 2012 - Why go back to the way things were when we can create housing that embraces the best of tradition and the best of new thinking?
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Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
by John Perkinsposted Jul 23, 2012 - In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
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