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by | Dec 17, 2013 | News

Revolution Catching Fire? T he Hunger Games: Catching Fire may be a big-budget film that made over $670 million in its first two weeks at the box office, but that hasn’t stopped economic justice activists from using its story to highlight their inequality...

Guest Column: When Americans Agree

by | Dec 17, 2013 | News

In the spirit of the holiday season, Congress should set aside dysfunction and the austerity mindset and give the American people a reason to be thankful: a federal spending and revenue plan that takes our best interests to heart. In late November, House...

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by | Dec 17, 2013 | News

Thank You, Nelson Mandela On February 11, 1990, the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison, I was coming out of a “prison of my own mind.” I had just moved away from home for the first time at the age of 27 and was preparing to enter graduate school...
Nightcrawler: Season?s Greed-ings

Nightcrawler: Season?s Greed-ings

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Music

Iconic singer/songwriter Neil Young has announced that he will follow up his four-show stand at Carnegie Hall early next year with four more aimed at clamping down on oil pipelines and production in his native Canada. Dubbed the “Honor The Treaties”...
Nightcrawler: Striking a Local Chord

Nightcrawler: Striking a Local Chord

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Music

Super Typhoon Haiyan may have unleashed its deadly winds and surging tides some 8,000-plus miles away last month. But as the Valley’s own Jennifer Matias explains, the devastation the tropical cyclone literally rained down on the people of Southeast Asia a month...