Military Spending: Where are the Jobs?
A new study finds that money spent on clean energy, health care, and education would create many more jobs than if the same money is spent on defense.
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Student Demonstrations Go Viral in Québec
A report from cacophonous Montréal where pan-protests have sprung up in defiance of a repressive anti-assembly law.
This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
Nayeli Guzman is a young Mexica woman who went to New Mexico to be part of the effort to restore traditional agriculture. Throughout the US, Native, Chicano, and other peoples are rejecting industrialized agriculture and are growing their own food instead, thereby reclaiming the health of their traditions, culture, bodies, and land.
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement – A Book Review
Mic check. The “people’s mic” is a tactic used by the 99% Movement to relay messages from a speaker to a vast crowd. This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement is Occupy Wall Street’s mic check to the “increasingly interested masses.”
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
“Everyone contributes according to his resources and receives according to his needs.” - French healtcare system’s slogan.
Treaty Like It’s 1999: Connecting the Dots on Trade
From Japan, on the expansion of the Trans-Pacific trade agreement and the homegrown battle to stop it.