Leggo My Ovaries

We, as women, cannot claim equality if someone else has control over our bodies.

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For London, a Community Bill of Rights

The legal system maintains the status quo to keep corporations in power and ensure that communities are subordinate. Community Bills of Rights, emerging now in many places, are helping to change that.

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Comprehending Climate Change

Climate change is the mother of all conundrums: too big to fear, too invisible to see, too unpredictable to predict. Different generations react to it at different speeds, and changing the mind is a slow business indeed.

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The Rich and the Rest of Us

A week ago, the U.S. government announced that 7.2 percent of Americans in the labor force earn so little that they are living in poverty. In other words: for the working poor, simply having a job isn’t enough.

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Charlotte Braces for the "Extraordinary"

Occupy Charlotte and coalition partners will confront their city's new "Extraordinary Event" law when they turn out Thursday to disrupt Duke Energy's annual shareholder meeting.

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Letter from California: I Am a Slut.

You might not have seen any news about the Unite Against the War on Women rally held Saturday in Sacramento, as the media didn’t cover it. But we left a footprint.

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The Dangers of Co-option

“Co-optation” is the word you hear activists whisper, whether you’re in New York, Atlanta or Albuquerque. Are unions and liberal groups like MoveOn valuable allies? Or do they pose a threat?

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Occupy the Hunger Games? Well, Yes, Actually

The trilogy about a mass youth uprising that overthrows a tyrannical 1% ruling class has riveted readers and viewers of all ages. But how much will this heroic tale of revolution impact teenagers facing a very real crisis over their future?

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"Festive, Righteous Anger": Occupy Makes a May Day Comeback

From the Free University to the Occupy Guitarmy to a Wildcat Strike to a massive march down Broadway, tens of thousands of New Yorkers came out to celebrate May Day - and make clear that the Occupy Spring is just beginning.

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Think They're Watching You? You're Right

You don't have to commit a crime to be tracked, surveilled, detained—sometimes at gunpoint—and interrogated without access to a lawyer.

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