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Act out! Podcast 29 - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives

Act out! Podcast 29 - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives
This article originally appeared on Occupy.com

Sanders’s rise in this election season is inconceivable without Occupy Wall Street having elevated the conversation around inequality.

A new federal lawsuit centers on more than 200 arrests made on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in September of 2012, when the NYPD arrested and harassed protesters for no reason other than that they were protesting.

The city's teachers prevailed this week because they made their strike is part of a greater struggle over the future of America’s cities and whether they will become semi-privatized playgrounds for the elites.

Margaret Flowers is speaking up loudly, saying it's high time we got activists in the halls of the mighty and powerful – time to move from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.

The financial transaction tax would limit the large-scale trades that economists say are now occurring far too quickly and creating the volatility that's again on display with the recent market plunge.

3 days 18 min ago

Unions are spreading like wildfire through the tech capital's low-wage workforce.

4 days 23 min ago

Legal experts are very concerned that a new law in the state allowing law enforcement drones to be armed with so-called less-than-lethal weapons – including stun guns, beanbag rounds and tasers – could pose great risks.

2 days 23 hours ago

This is not merely a crisis of Greece, or a crisis of debt — it's a crisis in the structure of the eurozone itself, where national governments can't implement monetary policy to support their fiscal policies.

4 days 37 min ago

An indigenous community called the Ka'apor in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.

4 days 27 min ago

Creative policies and innovative financing are helping cities overcome barriers to climate action – with huge returns on low-carbon investments already evident from Johannesburg to Copenhagen to Singapore.

Set to deliver record-breaking global temperatures in 2015 and 2016, the world’s climate has reached a major turning point according to a new report from the U.K. Met Office.

Defense contractors have historically played an outsized role shaping the national security debate through think tank funding – as was the case in the large donations Lockheed Martin gave Heritage, which lobbied intensely for its F-22 fighter jets.

Uncertainty still remains over whether the governor will ultimately approve the bill.

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