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Winslow: Turkish Unions Strike Again
Jun 18, 2013
A growing number of trade unions representing 800,000 Turkish workers, including members of the KESK and DISK labor coalitions, went out on strike
Schechter: Learning From The Spying Scandal
Jun 17, 2013
Revelations about NSA spying on US communications should allow us to join the dots from previous disclosures
Roos: Protests in Common
Jun 16, 2013
What do a park in Istanbul, a baby in Sarajevo, a security chief in Sofia, a TV station in Athens and bus tickets in Sao Paulo have in common?
Field: Reviving Native Food and Farming
Jun 15, 2013
Native communities throughout the US are reclaiming and reviving land, water, seeds, and traditional food and farming practices
Kagarlitsky: Pseudo-Experts Fuel Ignorance
Jun 14, 2013
Most Russian journalists are convinced that an "expert" is any person who has an opinion on a particular subject, regardless of that person's field of expertise
Zirin: Soccer Fans & Turkey’s Uprising
Jun 13, 2013
Welcome to the twenty-first century, where the revolution is not only televised: it takes place in between games
Street: Surveillance in the Age of Obama
Jun 12, 2013
Almost as bad as the programs themselves, are the creepy justifications offered for them by Barack Obama and his defenders
Solomon: Supporting Edward Snowden
Jun 11, 2013
It’s not just the National Security Agency that stands exposed; it’s the repressive arrogance perched on the pyramid of power
Germanos: Washington Officials Slam Leak
Jun 10, 2013
Calls to punish the whistleblower follow exposure of sweeping surveillance program
Lopez: Privacy Disappears in the Prism
Jun 09, 2013
What do you call a country where the military gathers massive information on its citizens?
Molina: A Long Road To Justice
Jun 08, 2013
Human rights organizations across Latin America organized actions protesting the sentence annulment, supporting the victims of genocide and condemning legal impunity
Erol: Erdogan And The ‘Looters’
Jun 07, 2013
Some background to the Turkish movement, and how it is challenging the prime minister’s version of ‘ethics’
Blum: What Our Presidents Tell Our Young People
Jun 06, 2013
In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s presidents
Buckland: Istanbul: A Tree Grows In Gezi
Jun 05, 2013
A report from Istanbul on the movement so far - and what it means to people
Gagné: Spring Comes To Turkey
Jun 04, 2013
How small protests to stop the demolition of a park in Istanbul snowballed into a challenge to the government and its machinery of repression
Storm: Blockupy Paralyzes Frankfurt
Jun 03, 2013
In Frankfurt, thousands demonstrated against a central financial institution in the heartland of neoliberal Europe
Bradbury: Adjunct Faculty Organize Citywide
Jun 02, 2013
Adjuncts number at least one million and now make up 75 percent of higher education faculty
Shoraka: Celebrating The Summer Of Resistance
Jun 01, 2013
A look ahead to a summer of mass actions and why the biggest threat to the status quo is when we take to the streets
Kagarlitsky: Bolotnaya Farce
May 31, 2013
The number of political prisoners related to the "Bolotnoye affair" underscores the scope of the authorities' crackdown on the remnants of free political expression
Jun 19, 2013
School police are the bedrock of the school-to-prison pipeline, a system that levies harsh punishments for nonviolent behavior