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Local Peace Economy Archives

No Accountability: How the Civil Justice System Fails Black Americans Killed by Police

Is Your Life Ruled by Screens? I Tried Out Sunglasses That Block What’s on Them

Time Really Is Money With Increasingly Popular Cooperative Banks

Do Any of the Democratic Presidential Candidates Understand the Power of Peace?

Immigrants Make America—Don’t Call ICE; Go Get a Cup of Coffee

A Clean Water Revolution Is Happening in the U.S.—Visionary Bill of Rights for Lake Erie Is Now Law

New Group Looks to Unite North America in a Cooperative Economy

Fight for Your Right… to Repair

E-Waste Is a Growing Problem—Here’s What You Can Do to Curb It

Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster

Communities Across the Country Are Taking Radical Steps Against Plastic

Universal Basic Income: Why a So-Called ‘Solution’ for Disappearing Jobs Makes Serfs of Us All

What I Learned Being Part of the Sanctuary Caravan: Delivering Support to Asylum Seekers on the U.S. Border

Integrating the Social Safety Net Into America’s Prisons

10 Good Things About 2018

Elections Don’t Make Israel a Democracy

Bring the Troops Home, but Also Stop the Bombing

Green New Deal Advocates Should Address Militarism

7 Reasons Overworked and Underpaid Workers on the U.S. Coasts Should Move to Middle America

Will the New House Democrats Take on the War Lobby?

7 Economic Terms That Are Often Used to Trick People Out of Their Money

Why Aren’t More Young People Involved in the Anti-War Movement?

You Have Permission to Take a Media Break

Is the Way We Count Time a Mechanism of Control?

How the Headwrap Expo Is Helping to Break Cultural Barriers