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Who is Too Big to Fail?
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Upping the Big Banks Ante
I spent this afternoon bearing witness to the banking regulators’ best-kept secret: public hearings. YES, open to the public. The problem
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The (Un)Common Core
Well, the joke’s on us. It turns out that when you parcel off public education to technocratic billionaires, they write themselves into the
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We want justice and we want it now.
This was a speech given by NYC Councilmember Jumaane D. Williams on 2/26/13 by mic check at #MIllionhoodies Vigil for Trayvon Martin in Union
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This is What Democracy Feels Like
I delivered this speech at TEDxBenha on February, 20th, 2013 in Benha, Egypt. You may leave comments on the Facebook version. [divider] I am
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Why we were meant to be together, Occupy.
It’s Christmas morning, and the eery quiet on Nostrand Ave in Bedford-Stuyvesent gives my mind some space to roam. It is never this quiet