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15 Vermont Towns Vote to Start a Public Bank that Works for Them, Not Wall

By a more than three-to-one margin on Tuesday, communities voting on whether to support the creation of a public bank in Vermont approved the idea, calling for the state legislature to establish ...

Mar 7

Landlords on Wall Street: The New Housing Scheme

Mar 7

'Arts to gentrification' in Station North Arts and Entertainment District,

The discussion of introducing the arts community as a process to gentrification seems to have taken an intellectual turn in many places in Baltimore. In doing so it misses the practice and process ...

Mar 7

Obama's Budget Cuts Millions From CFTC Budget

Mar 7

At The Merit Shop, You Pay With Creativity Instead Of Money

Do a handstand, tell a story, or show off any other talent you happen to have, and The Merit Shop will give you something in exchange. Calling itself a "little corner shop of anarchy," the project ...

Mar 7

Millennial generation is cause for liberal optimism

A new study by the Pew Research Center provides reason for political optimism: Members of the so-called millennial generation, born after 1980, are more liberal than the preceding generations on a ...

Mar 5

From Cryptocurrencies to Cryptocontracts

"The twin technologies of cryptocurrencies and cryptocontracts are going to turn contract law into a programming language". Excerpted from @ThoughtInfected: "Essentially what we are talking about i...

Mar 5

Activist Chris Crass Talks Feminism for Men

Crass to Keynote Centre for Gender Advocacy Event Follow @geoffvendeville Men who identify as feminists aren't as rare as you might think. Update: To help men get engaged in feminism, the Centre for

Mar 5

County Supervisor says Chokwe Lumumba was Murdered - Wants Autopsy

Medical News The death of Chokwe Lumumba was a tough blow to the civil rights community. The Jackson, Mississippi mayor was considered to be one of the great civil rights activists of his time and ...

Mar 5

Scary Emerging Scientific Consensus: There's No Such Thing as Safe Plastic

Amy Goodman:"Are any plastics safe?" That's the title - that's the question of a new exposé by Mother Jones that may shock anyone who drinks out of plastic bottles, gives their children plastic ...