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Insurers Are Abandoning Homeowners Over Wildfire Risk But Investing in Big Oil

Insurers Are Abandoning Homeowners Over Wildfire Risk But Investing in Big Oil

The firms invested half a trillion in fossil fuels, stoking the crisis that led them to dump thousands of homeowners.

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Trump Is Packing His Cabinet With Crypto, Oil and Private Prison Profiteers

Trump Is Packing His Cabinet With Crypto, Oil and Private Prison Profiteers

Trump’s policy makers will be overseeing the industries that they run and own.

18.01.2025 8

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Organizers Fight the Greenwashing of Plastic Pollution With Grassroots Power

By now, it’s indisputable that we’re experiencing a global crisis of plastics production and plastics waste. There may be as much as 200...

01.01.2025 6

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Mapping the Billionaire Winners of the 2024 Election

This is the first in a new series of LittleSis posts mapping out billionaire power in current U.S. politics, including the new Trump...

12.12.2024 6

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Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Is a Larger System of Corporate Rule

The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson — a brazen assassination of a wealthy CEO in the streets of midtown Manhattan — shocked the...

12.12.2024 6

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These Billionaires Subsidize the Israeli Military Through a US Nonprofit

Israel’s war on Gaza — marked by extensive war crimes, and widely seen as an ongoing genocide — has been backed by the U.S. government, which...

02.12.2024 3

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Berkeley Free Speech Movement Forged an Organizing Blueprint That’s Relevant Now

U.S. universities have always been sites of contestation and political struggle. Today, their governing bodies are dominated by representatives of...

30.11.2024 10

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Jewish Anti-Zionist Activist Describes His Arrest Under UK’s Anti-Terror Law

On November 1, author and activist Haim Bresheeth was arrested in London after giving a speech at a pro-Palestine rally outside the home of Tzipi...

23.11.2024 60

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Farmworkers Are Organizing to Resist Trump’s Attacks on Immigrant Workers

Donald Trump rode to reelection on a campaign packed with racist rhetoric that promised mass deportations of immigrants. So far, Trump has...

16.11.2024 20

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Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses

If reelected U.S. president, Donald Trump, echoing other Republicans, has said he would shut down the Department of Education. All signs point...

02.11.2024 3

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Legacy of John Brown’s Abolitionist Raid Lives On, 165 Years Later

This week marks the 165th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (in what is now West Virginia) in October 1859....

16.10.2024 1

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Campus Organizers Are Using Research to Expose and Oppose the Global War Machine

The explosion of campus protest movements against Israel’s siege of Gaza, especially during the April 2024 encampments, has been historic. These...

29.09.2024 3

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As Florida Floods, Insurance Industry Reaps What It Sowed Backing Fossil Fuels

Hurricane Helene slammed into the Florida coast on Thursday night, bringing pounding rains and “fierce, whipping winds that sounded like jet...

27.09.2024 3

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Power Research for Palestine: How Campus Organizers Are Using Research to Oppose the War Machine

(Photo: Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, April 2024) The explosion of campus protest movements against Israel’s siege of Gaza,...

26.09.2024 6

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AIPAC Targets Progressive Lawmakers with Record Spending

There has been growing criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobbying operation that is...

15.09.2024 10

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Buffalo Medical Residents Are Striking for Fair Pay and Better Conditions

Around 100 picketers stood in front of Buffalo General Hospital on September 4, chanting and talking to reporters under the midday sun. They...

06.09.2024 30

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Top AIPAC Donors Tied to Prominent Cultural Institutions and Universities

(Photo: Flickr) There has been growing criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the powerful pro-Israel lobbying...

05.09.2024 2

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Union Busting in Buffalo Continues — But Restaurant Workers Are Fighting Back

The past few years have seen a wave of unionization among U.S. food service workers, most notably at Starbucks, where Starbucks Workers United has...

02.09.2024 3

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As DNC Kicks Off, Palestine Solidarity Activists Look to 1964 for Inspiration

As the Democratic National Convention (DNC) begins, and with Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza fracturing the party’s coalition, the echoes of...

19.08.2024 1

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These Billionaires Are Donating Big in 2024 Election to Advance Their Interests

There’s less than three months to go until the U.S. presidential election on November 5, 2024. And like the sun rising, billionaires are...

18.08.2024 3

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These Billionaire Donors Stand To Gain Big From Presidential Election

Clockwise from upper left: Elon Musk, Miriam Adelson, Harold Hamm, Jeffrey Yass, the Winklevoss Twins and Reid Hoffman There’s less than three...

15.08.2024 4

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Atlanta’s Cop City Is Funded by Some of the Same Billionaires Who Back AIPAC

Over the past few years, the battle against the proposed 85-acre Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — commonly known as “Cop City” — has...

31.07.2024 10

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