People vs. corporations
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Sitting In with Wendell Berry
by Jeff Biggersposted Feb 17, 2011 - An interview with Wendell Berry midway through his four-day sit-in in the Kentucky governor's office in protest of mountaintop removal coal mining.
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A Real-Market Alternative
by David Kortenposted Feb 15, 2011 - Our current economic choice is not between capitalism and communism. It is between locally accountable Main Street markets and Wall Street central planning by predatory global financiers.
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Corporate Control? Not in These Communities
by Allen D. Kannerposted Feb 04, 2011 - Municipalities across the country are passing ordinances reclaiming their citizens' rights from corporate interests.
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Money From Nothing?
by David Kortenposted Feb 01, 2011 - Through their accounting slight of hand, Wall Street illusionists convince even themselves that they are enriching society rather than preying on it.
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What If Orangutans Had Their Day In Court?
by Madeline Ostranderposted Feb 01, 2011 - Environmentalists say nature should have legally recognized rights. But what does that really mean?
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The Not-So-Neutral Net
by Jenn Ettingerposted Jan 24, 2011 - The FCC’s new rules on Net Neutrality open the Internet to corporate discrimination. But it’s not too late to preserve Internet freedom.
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Citizens United?
by Brooke Jarvisposted Jan 21, 2011 - The need to get money out of politics may be the one thing Americans agree on.
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Diary of a Disaster: 6 Months in the Gulf
by Riki Ottposted Jan 11, 2011 - What it’s like to respond to an environmental and democratic crisis—and where we go from here.
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In Memory of Judy Bonds
by Robert Shetterlyposted Jan 10, 2011 - Artist Robert Shetterly remembers a coal miner's daughter who took on the coal industry.
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Legal Pros Say No to Citizens United
by Jeffrey D. Clements and Ben T. Clementsposted Nov 17, 2010 - Experts call for Constitutional amendment to take back democracy from corporations.
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Pittsburgh Bans Natural Gas Drilling
by Mari Margil, Ben Priceposted Nov 16, 2010 - A historic new ordinance bans natural gas drilling while elevating community decision making and the rights of nature over the “rights” associated with corporate personhood.
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Boat-to-Table Fishing CSAs Catching On
by Ellen Tyler, Daniel Firesideposted Nov 14, 2010 - Do you know who your fisherman is?
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7 Ways to Transform Banking
by Fran Kortenposted Nov 11, 2010 - Each of us can help build a resilient financial system that will serve real people in real communities.
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After the Campaign Cash, the Backlash
by Brooke Jarvisposted Nov 04, 2010 - The 2010 midterm elections—the first since Citizens United opened the floodgates to corporate campaign cash—were the most expensive in history. So what happens next?
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Will the Real Voice of Small Business Please Stand Up?
by Stacy Mitchellposted Nov 02, 2010 - Small businesses and local chambers are distancing themselves from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s politics.
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