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The veteran LGBT activist is fighting for an Assembly seat in California, but she faces tough opposition from a current representative who moved into her district and who is backed by Speaker John Perez.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator; Emad Brunat and Guy Davidi’s 5 Broken Cameras

The first Feminist General Assembly is a model for how OWS can—and can’t—work alongside established social movements.

When it comes to running Bank of America, shareholders don’t have much more influence than the demonstrators outside.

A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.

 Through participatory budgeting, can Occupy bring the movement for direct democracy into the heart of government power?

Unless the movement gets more strategic about its image, it may end up talking to itself.

He was sanguine Tuesday night when I spoke with him by phone about his gerrymandered eviction from the US House of Representatives.

This is your brain on two weeks of non-stop Fox News.

The GOP panders to racists, and liberals are blamed for a “neurotic” obsession with race.