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  Prashad: My Voice Is the Gallows for All Tyrants

  More than seven million Kashmiris remain suffocated by the Indian government
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  Feffer: The Collapse of the East Asian Order

  With Japan and South Korea in the middle of a feud, East Asia is on the verge of a serious unraveling
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  Brown: Puerto Rico’s “Generation Maria” Leads a Climate Strike

  “It’s great to see people that didn’t know each other, that went to those meetings not knowing anyone, planning together, meeting at each other’s houses, designing presentations, plans, and timelines to build their dream cities”
• Berry: The radical potential of the Corbyn project

  What Labour needs to do to avoid the fate of Syriza in Greece
• Schwartz: Whose Grid? Our Grid

  Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control
• Siddique: To Save The Planet, Cut The Pentagon

  For just over 10% of a single year's military spending, we could build enough green electricity for every household in the country
• Catolico: Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal

  The resilience and continued drive of Detroiters makes the city the prime location to implement Green New Deal reforms
• Allyn: New Mexico, Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income

  New Mexico Unveils Plan To Give Students Free College Tuition Regardless Of Income
• Wilson: The US Has “Disappeared” More Than 42,000 Migrants

  Where’s the Outrage?
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  Aronoff: Why VSCO Girls are Going on Strike for the Climate

  The Boomers had their hippies. Gen X had its unwashed,...
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  Emanuele: Small Town Values

  The horrors of addiction are compounded by systemic poverty, an increasingly militarized police department, social alienation, an eroded welfare state, and political nihilism
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  Cole: The 3.5% Rule

  The next stage of the Global Climate Movement is Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
• Johnson: ‘Biggest Day of Climate Action in Planetary History’

  "We're here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist."
• Juwaria Jama, Isra Hirsi: “Young People Have Had Enough”

  Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching
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  Monbiot: Embarrassment of Riches

  The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury
• Pierre: What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About U.S.

  Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out
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  Glick: “Troublemaker”

  “Troublemaker,” by Bruce Hartford, is a personal memoir of what it was like to be part of the civil rights/Black Freedom movement between 1963 and 1967
• Savell: The Imperial Debris of War

  Why Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing
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  Bacevich: “Trump Specializes In Showmanship Not Statecraft”

  Understand that the very notion of principles is alien to Trump’s make-up. He is, therefore, incapable acting in a consistent fashion pursuant to some larger sense of purpose. So he makes things up as he goes along
• Chávez: Hospital’s Plan to to Paint Nurses Union as “Shameless”

  A post on an official-looking site called UCMCnurses.org, which represents the interests of the administration, tried to undermine the union and the strike, and calling a trip by union leaders out of town “shameless behavior”
• Day: You Say You Want a Revolution: a Prison Letter to Yoko Ono

  Gratifying as it may feel to see people sent off to rot behind walls, there are two unseen realities in play: (1) People who want someone to die in prison usually have no idea of what prison is like; and (2) Bad as prison can be, people inside can and do change
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  Raina: Ghosts Who Walk

  Those we thought were long interred Are with us again;...
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  Swanson: Every Peace Group and Activist Should Join Strike DC for the Earth’s Climate

  Peace activists and organizations have worked for years to bring environmental and peace activism...
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  Tokar: The liberatory potential of local action

  Local action is often the best remedy for the failings of the current system — a worldwide confederation of democratic communities can have the same impact at a global scale