In August this author questioned Bernie’s motives, now he’s urging us to vote for the Vermont Senator in the primaries.
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Category: Editorials, Politics, Recent Articles
Tags: Bernie, Capitalism, Clinton, Democrats, Hillary, Politics, Republicans, Sanders, Socialism, United States
It is unreasonable to deny these individuals help because we are afraid of what might happen if we give them their lives back. That is not how humanity works.
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Category: Inequality, News, Politics, Poverty, Recent Articles
Tags: 2015, Daesh, Democrats, Featured, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Muslims, Paris, Passport, Politics, Refugee, Republicans, Syrian, Terrorism
The people of Paris did not die at the hands of the Islamic State so we could surrender our ideals to fanatics.
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Category: Editorials, News, Politics, Recent Articles, Special
Tags: Christianity, Democrats, France, ISIL, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Opinion, Paris, Republicans, United States
Pearson, the education publishing giant is the gatekeeper for those wishing to serve at the department of state. Should corporations be allowed to control who becomes public servants and who doesn’t?
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Category: Politics, Recent Articles
Tags: corporations, Corruption, Department of State, DOS, Education, Featured, Foreign Policy, Foreign Service Officer Test, FSOT, Government, Pearson, Politics, Private, Public, Testing, U.S.
The Century of the Self is a British documentary written, produced, and narrated by Adam Curtis, originally airing in 2002 on BBC 4. The series identifies the multitude of ways in which powerful interests, both public and private, have used psychoanalysis to control populations
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Category: Activist Watch List, Health, Politics, Recent Articles
Tags: Activist Watch List, Adam Curtis, Blaire, Capitalism, Century of the self, Chomsky, Clinton, Control, Featured, Freud, Freud's theories, Media, mind control, Politics, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, social control, Sociology
Will Sanders’s campaign usher in change for the Democratic Party, or will it serve to Shepard young liberals into Hilary’s camp? One socialist weighs in on Bernie’s legitimacy as a candidate and as a progressive.
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Category: Editorials, Inequality, Politics, Poverty, Recent Articles
Tags: 2016, Activism, Bernie, Bernie Sanders, class, corporations, Democrat, Democratic Party, Economics, Featured, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, Government, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Liberals, Politics, Positive, progressive, Race, Republican, Sanders, Socialism, United States, working class
AWL is a series in which we take a look at documentaries or otherwise important video content that illuminates the issues and conflicts at the heart of the activist community. This episode features “Manufacturing Consent” which highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.
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Category: Activist Watch List, News, Politics, Special
Tags: Bias, Chomsky, conservative, corporations, Documentary, Featured, Liberal, Media, monopoly, News, Noam, Politics, Print, social control, Sociology, United States
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 provides us with both a reason to cheer and motivation to continue bettering our world. But there is more to be done!
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Category: Health, Inequality, Politics, Recent Articles
Tags: conservative, Development, FFD3, Liberal, MDG, Politics, Poverty, UN, United Nations
The rhetoric, like their policies, is divisive. It speaks to the spirit of competition, pitting us in an imagined “us vs. them” scenario where we must compete with each other and prostitute ourselves to the industries and businesses in order to prosper. Unfortunately, this is the reality which Governor Scott Walker and the Republican leadership have imposed upon us.
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Category: Editorials, Inequality, News, Politics, Poverty, Recent Articles
Tags: Capitalism, Democrats, Madison, Minimum wage, protest, Republicans, Right to Work, Scott Walker, Unions, Wages, Walker, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin State Assembly, Wisconsin State Senate
Every quarter, Positive Activism seeks to discover a new activist and find out what what really makes them tick! This spotlight piece features Asher Platts. Here Asher shares his story of how he came to be so involved with the Greens and offers inspiration to those considering becoming involved with the political system.
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Category: Activist Update, Environment, Politics, Poverty, Recent Articles, Special
Tags: Activism, Democratic Party, Democrats, funding, Green, Green Party, Islam, Jill, Maine Greens, Party, Patriot, Positive, Punk, Republicans, United States, Volunteer, voting, War