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December 5, 2011
A couple pulls into a grocery store parking lot at exactly midnight on the first of the month. They are well-dressed and middle-class looking, but their faces are tense. The woman takes out her cell phone and dials a hotline that will report, in... Read more
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November 21, 2011
The Occupy Movement couldn't have come along at a worse time, from the viewpoint of the Democrats. Election season is just getting started and Occupy has thrown a giant wrench into the political machinery. Some labor leaders too are sensing ... Read more
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November 10, 2011
Whole Foods is set to move into the former Borders storefront in Davis Commons in 12 to 18 months. As the Wal-Mart of organic and natural groceries, Whole Foods is reviled for its anti-union policies and reactionary politics. Read more
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November 10, 2011
When I arrived at Sotheby's on New York's Upper East Side before a massive art auction on Wednesday night, the three-month-old picket line outside the institution was peopled by a couple dozen Teamsters and supporters there on behalf of locked-out... Read more
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November 3, 2011
Every night at Zuccotti Park, dinner is served around 7 P.M. What protesters may not realize is that their meals are made from fresh, organic produce donated by a dozen or so small farms located throughout the Northeast. Read more
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November 8, 2011
Angus Wright has a way of saying things we may not want to hear in a way that's hard to ignore.... Read more
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November 1, 2011
At Occupy Oakland's October 27 General Assembly, activists still sore and weary from a night of brutal police crackdowns (but also energized after re-taking the plaza from which they'd been violently evicted 36 hours before) considered whether to... Read more
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October 11, 2011
Countercultures and alternative systems can be nurturing, educational, illuminating, inspiring - and these are not small things - but they do not bring about fundamental change. Food co-ops, for example, make a difference, but they won't much... Read more
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