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Monsanto Knowingly Polluted SF Bay with Toxic PCBs, Now Oakland Faces Billion Dollar Cleanup

Oakland city attorney says the chemical giant “chose profits over people, and American cities and citizens are still suffering the consequences.”

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Come Get My Vote: Workers Walk Off in 270 Cities

Fight for $15 organizers say workers will walk off the job in 270 cities across the U.S.

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Kids These Days: Readying for Mass Civil Disobedience

Young people from across the country to sweep Washington, D.C. with direct action “to demand justice on race, climate change, and immigration”

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It Took Me Years to Believe That Black Lives Matter – Now Here’s What I Need From You

Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.

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Who Won the Debate? We Did.

According to every poll, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Party’s first debate. But the real winners weren’t standing onstage.

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The Upside of Debt: How a National Crisis Is Fueling a Movement

Three leading organizers have a conversation about how America’s debt problem has transformed the movements they work with.

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Anti-Racist Organizers Win as Seattle Council Votes to End Youth Incarceration

The resolution endorses the goal of having no kids in detention in Seattle.

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Demanding Medicare-for-All, Medical Students Rise Up Nationwide

“Very early in our medical careers… we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system.”

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Free the Snake: Restoring North America’s Greatest Salmon River

The time has come to breach the deadbeat dams on the Snake River and reconnect wild salmon to this important watershed.

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Seattle Teachers Strike for School Reforms

For the first time in 30 years, Seattle teachers are hitting the picket lines for educational reforms.