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The US Supreme Court hears arguments on whether Puerto Rico's courts can restructure about $20 billion of the US territory's $72 billion debt....

We can march together around the world with the hundreds of people in 40 degree weather in Washington DC online protesting AIPAC's Democrat-Republican Pro Nazi Israel rally at: https://www.facebook.com/AnswerCoalition/ and https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal. Also see https://twitter.com/@ANSWERCoalition...

March 20, 2016 will be remembered as a milestone in history for its massive protest of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at its annual conference in Washington DC which this year will be a presidential election rally for the twin parties of war and fascism, the Democrat-Republicans, both 100% pro-Israel at all levels of office with Democrat Clinton and Republican Trump scheduled to address this fascist, racist, anti-Communist, anti-Palestinian, war-promoting gang. On the s...

Argentina's lower house of Congress voted 165-86 to repeal two laws that blocked the country from settling its decade-long debt dispute with a group of "hold-out" investors....

This article summaries how the city council voted 5 to 2 to maintain a sleeping ban in Santa Cruz County, which unjustly punishes the homeless for their condition....

On March 10, 2016, a bourgeois Babbitt San Francisco suburban federal jury declared 4 San Francisco police not guilty of using excessive force in the civil trial of Alex Nieto v. the City of San Francisco despite the fact that Alex Nieto was killed by 15 of the 59 shots the cops shot at him, some in the back, with one cop reloading and continuing with the execution, and the strongest prosecution witness, an African-American jogger, verifying that Nieto's hands were in his pockets, where 1 bon...

Help stop the surveillance state. Help the Oakland Privacy Working Group and the ACLU make the case that surveillance methodologies and equipment must be overseen by the people, who have the right to make decisions on what is permissible - not the police. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: https://action.aclu.org/secure/stop-unchecked-police-surveillance-santa-clara-county...

On Thursday, March 3, 2016, a large coalition of Oakland renters, clergy, teachers, homeowners, unions, community organizations, small business and landlords filed a proposed anti-displacement ballot initiative that strengthens fair and equitable protections for Oakland tenants most impacted by the City’s growing housing crisis!...

Techniques-fragmentation and propaganda-make serious violations of moral norms by the ruling elites morally and cognitively invisible to the population. With many examples, professor Mausfeld gives insight in the actual management of our democracy and how people are kept in apathy and in the illusion of being informed....

The religious development coalition Jubilee USA is launching radio spots focused on Puerto Rico's debt crisis ahead of "Super Tuesday" presidential primary elections....