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As Wal-Mart Workers Plan Record Black Friday Protests, Study Says Retail Giant Can Afford Higher Pay; Reverend Billy Faces Year in Prison for Protesting JPMorgan Chase’s Financing of Fossil Fuels; “Hannah Arendt” Revisits Fiery Debate over German-American Theorist’s Coverage of Eichmann Trial. HeadlinesNovember 26, 2013 U.N. Sets Syria Peace Talks for January Obama on … Continued
Historic Deal Curbs Iran’s Nuclear Program While Easing U.S.-Led Devastating Economic Sanctions; Honduras Presidential Elections in Dispute as Activists Defy Violence to Back Ousted Leader’s Wife; Spooky Business: U.S. Corporations Enlist Ex-Intelligence Agents to Spy on Nonprofit Groups. HeadlinesNovember 25, 2013 Secret U.S.-Iran Talks in Oman Paved Way for Nuclear Deal Warsaw Climate Summit … Continued
As Environmentalists Walk Out of UN Talks, Top US Envoy Says No to Reparations for Climate Damage; “You’ve Made a Wager of Our Future”: Somali Youth Activist Pleads to U.N. Summit for Climate Action; Climate Activists: Carbon Trading a “False Solution” Pushed by Bankers and Bureaucrats; “We Can’t Take Crumbs from the High Table”: Global … Continued
“Nature Does Not Negotiate”: Environmentalists Walk Out of U.N. Climate Summit in Warsaw; Greenpeace: In Opposing Oil Drilling, Detained “Arctic 30” Are Standing Up for Planet’s 7 Billion; “We Have To Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis; “Polluters Talk, We Walk”: Civil Society Groups Abandon Warsaw Talks Over Inaction … Continued
As Poor Countries Walk Out of Climate Talks, Venezuela Calls on Industrial Nations to Take Action; U.N. Defends Banning Three Youth Activists While Allowing Fossil Fuel Firms To Sponsor Climate Talks; “Finance Climate Action, Not Fossil Fuel Subsidies”: Activists Blast Priorities of Biggest Polluters; Filipino Climate Chief: “It Feel Like We Are Negotiating on Who … Continued
On Day 9 of Fast, Filipino Climate Chief Yeb Saño Demands Rich Nations Pay Up for Global Pollution; “Civil Society Isn’t Welcome & Corporations Are”: Youth Activist On Being Banned From Climate Talks; Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan To Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change. HeadlinesNovember 19, 2013 Bombing of Iranian Embassy … Continued
Global Voices From Africa to the Philippines Demand Climate Justice at U.N. Summit in Warsaw; Partnering With Polluters? U.N. Climate Summit Criticized for Sponsorships by Fossil Fuel Companies; 2 Months After Russia’s Jailing of Arctic 30, Greenpeace Urges Their Release at Warsaw Summit; After Typhoon Haiyan’s Devastation, Filipino Calls for Climate Action Take On New … Continued
Jailed for Life for Stealing a $159 Jacket? 3,200 Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Crimes; Calle 13’s René “Residente” Pérez on Revolutionary Music, WikiLeaks & Puerto Rican Independence; Burning the Evidence: Gunmen Torch Records Documenting War Crimes, Missing Children in El Salvador. HeadlinesNovember 15, 2013 Obama Allows Health Insurers to Continue Substandard Plans … Continued
TPP Exposed: WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Trade Text to Rewrite Copyright Laws, Limit Internet Freedom; Senate Faces Historic Vote on Handling Military Sexually Assault Epidemic Outside Chain of Command; A Nun Takes on the Drug War: Consuelo Morales on Crusading Against Mexican Cartels, Corrupt Police. HeadlinesNovember 14, 2013 Boehner Rules Out Talks on Immigration Reform … Continued
“Criminalizing Black Corpses”: No Charges Filed After White Man Kills Detroit Teen Renisha McBride; Exclusive: Dave Pierre on Surviving 1,144 Days Locked Up Inside the Failed U.S. Immigration System; As New Protest Law Looms, Egypt Faces Harsher Authoritarian Order Than the Revolution Overthrew. HeadlinesNovember 13, 2013 Philippines President Lowers Death Toll as Haiyan Survivors … Continued
