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corporations
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The Dollar Menu
Read more: The Dollar MenuEver get to thinking about how a food desert can pop up in the middle of a major city? One major reason is corporate fast food and manufactured goods. Food deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without…
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MolleIndustria Video Games – McDonald’s
Read more: MolleIndustria Video Games – McDonald’sIn this game, you own and operate McDonald’s. You have the choice to try to operate ethically or make decisions like using genetically modified soy or administering bovine growth hormone. If you go the ethical route, you bankrupt the company…
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UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public education
Read more: UC Student Art Action protests corporate privatization of public educationOn Tuesday, May 8, in the midst of final exam week, a group of female first-year students performed a public art action at UC Berkeley to call attention to the UC Regents’ privatization of what was once the premier public…
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suits
Read more: Finally, OWS gets police to arrest the people in suitsSometimes justice requires a little imagination. On Saturday, when much of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York was loudly denouncing police violence against minorities and protesters, a small group of environmentalists dreamed up a way to get the…
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Corporations Ain’t People
Read more: Corporations Ain’t PeopleCorporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest September 14, 2010; YES Magazine When Target spent $150,000 to support a Minnesota politician who favors anti-gay legislation, thousands of people decided to boycott the big-box chain. But instead of simply shopping elsewhere, these…
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SOPA Blackout
Read more: SOPA BlackoutSOPA Blackout: Wikipedia, Google, Wired Protest ‘Internet Censorship’ Jan 18, 2012, ABC News, Ned Potter Go to Wikipedia’s English home page and it will look like its regular self for a second, but then – Go to Google‘s homepage, and…
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Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with ‘butthurt form’
Read more: Anonymous fights Arizona censorship bill with ‘butthurt form’There’s a fine line between offensive and hilarious, and Arizona lawmakers aim to make that boundary legally protected. If House Bill 2549 passes, online harassment could become a criminal offense – but some hacktivists are there to help you rejoice.…
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Bank of America’s new Automated Truth Machines
Read more: Bank of America’s new Automated Truth MachinesA couple of weeks ago, a group of activists working with Rainforest Action Network’s Energy and Finance campaign hit the streets of San Francisco to bring a little truth about Bank of America’s misdeeds to its customers—not in the lobbies…