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When Women Make Peace When Women Make Peace

In the wake of three women being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a new PBS documentary series celebrates women’s roles as peacemakers--but oversimplifies complex conflicts lik...

Oct 17, 2011 / Dana Goldstein

Wall Street to #OWS: Obnoxious Is Good Wall Street to #OWS: Obnoxious Is Good

 An ad for the trading company Forex flatters the 1 percent that they’re worth it. 

Oct 17, 2011 / Leslie Savan

Bernie Sanders: Creating a Progressive America Bernie Sanders: Creating a Progressive America

 Why is poverty invisible in the US?

Oct 17, 2011 / The Nation and On The Earth Productions

Wall Street’s Second Occupation Wall Street’s Second Occupation

The police occupation of the Wall Street area has been hardly less massive, sustained or impressive than the Zuccotti Park encampment.

Oct 17, 2011 / Tom Engelhardt

America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases

Meet the secret bases that make up the backbone of a new American robotic way of war.

Oct 17, 2011 / Nick Turse

Why Cornel West Was Arrested in Memory of Martin Luther King Jr., in Support of Occupy Movement Why Cornel West Was Arrested in Memory of Martin Luther King Jr., in Support of Occupy Movement

 On the day the King memorial was dedicated, Dr. Cornel West was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court.

Oct 17, 2011 / John Nichols

8 Questions for Michele Bachmann 8 Questions for Michele Bachmann

Bachmann is criticizing the front-runners in the hopes of getting more attention. Here are some questions she could be asked at Tuesday’s debate in Las Vegas.

Oct 17, 2011 / Ben Adler

‘The First Amendment Is Our Permit’ ‘The First Amendment Is Our Permit’

Sign on to RootsAction’s petition to the nation’s mayors and police chiefs affirming your support for the right to unfettered peaceful protest.

Oct 16, 2011 / Peter Rothberg

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Pack Times Square

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Pack Times Square Occupy Wall Street Protesters Pack Times Square

Thousands of Occupy Wall Street activists flooded Times Square on Saturday in a dramatic protest against the upper one percent.

Oct 16, 2011 / Allison Kilkenny

The Anita Hill Hearings: When ‘Just Life’ Became Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Harassment Became Wrong The Anita Hill Hearings: When ‘Just Life’ Became Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Harassment Became Wrong

Twenty years after Anita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the sexual harassment she’d experienced working for Clarence Thomas, the facts of the hear...

Oct 16, 2011 / Emily Douglas

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