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Bereft of their big tent at Zuccotti Park, activists have found a unifying theme in debt.

If Occupy evolves into a debt resistance movement, the results could be explosive.

As last year’s occupations showed, cities need more places the public can call its own.

The Undocubus activists are calling for the immigration reform that President Obama promised when he first ran for office.

An Israeli court absolved the state of responsibility for her death. But the memory of this courageous activist for Palestinian rights will help advance her cause.

The courageous Chinese dissident has always had an eye for the point where art and politics meet in performance.

Why the liberation of African-Americans serves as the key to the liberation of all people of color in the United States.

Facts still don’t get in their way.

The indigenous Mapuche people have been trying to reclaim their ancestral lands for the past ten years, but Chilean authorities have only reacted with force.

At a time when 4.5 million Americans make at or below the minimum wage, a broad coalition unites to demand better pay.