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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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Want to Waste Less Food at Home? There’s a Handbook for That

A scientist offers practical tips for reducing food waste at home.

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With Renewables on the Rise, Dirty Fuels Losing Competitive Edge

The financial realities are pushing a clean energy transition—as more wind and solar capacity is installed, coal and natural gas plants are used less.

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If Your Tax Dollars Help Create a Resource, Shouldn’t it be Shared Freely?

The Open Licensing Policy Toolkit supports “the education of government staff creating, adopting and implementing open licensing policies.”

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A New New Deal from the Roosevelt Institute

A reform agenda based on an incisive analysis of how we got here. Call it a new, New Deal.

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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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Mending Library Repairs Clothes and Connects People on SF’s Skid Row

SF’s Mending Library began when Michael Swaine set up a cart and got to work repairing pants, tops, jackets, bags, or whatever else a needle and thread could save.

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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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After Decades of Discrimination, Farm & Vineyard Workers Get Pesticide Protections

Farm workers will now have sweeping new protections from pesticides under new EPA rules.