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California Is Not Dreaming
Garvey, John
Article
2010
Discussion of March 4, 2010 Day of Action in California.
Connexions: Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today
LeBlanc, Paul; Yates, Michael D.
Book
2013
While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlook...
Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?: Against The Current vol. 114
Prins, Nomi
Article
2005
Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarte...
A Radical Vision for Victory: A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Buhle, Paul
Article
2013
This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the s...

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Citizens for Public Justice
CPJ is a national organization promoting justice in Canadian public affairs, responding politically to God's call for love toward our neighbour and responsibility for our environment. We use research,...
Food Banks Canada
National umbrella group for Canadian food banks, distributed nearly 9 million pounds of food in 2003 to member food banks in all provinces. Works to promote the eradication of hunger and poverty in Ca...

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Good Accounting is M.I.A
City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
Roberts, Wayne
2011
The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the munici...
Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Graham, Stephen
2012
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.