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New Laws Would Make Environmental Protest “Terrorism”

There's a vibrant environmental protest movement reviving "direct action" techniques like tree-sitting. In Oregon, in the summer of 2011, one blockade took 50 cops, a backhoe, and a 125-foot-crane to remove treesitters. A few days later, activists locked themselves in an Oregon Department of Forestry office. As a result—surprise, surprise—politicians are trying to create new laws that make tree-sits and other direct-action techniques illegal. The bills allow corpora… Full story

The Company Helping Movie Studios Sue You for Illegal Downloading Has Been Using Images Without Permission

Canipre, the company in question, has written "they all know it's wrong and they're still doing it." Referring to copyright theft. On top of an image that they are using without the permission of the copyright holder. On their official website. Whoops! Full story

International Cyberthieves Stole $40 Million from a Bank in Ten Hours

In December 2012, and again in February of this year, a couple of highly coordinated cyberattacks targeted two Middle Eastern banks—Oman’s Bank of Muscat and the United Arab Emirates’ Bank of Ras Al Khaimah—in a $45 million dollar heist that evidently surprised the shit out of au… Full story

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Obama Governs Like Bush on Reproductive Rights

The Obama administration overturned the FDA's recommendation for women of all ages to have access to Plan B and restricted Plan B only to those at least 15 years of age with a photo ID. This is the kind of move we've come to expect from the red-staters, but not our progressive pr… Full story

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This Is What Winning Looks Like

Filmmaker and author Ben Anderson went to Afghanistan in 2007 and stayed for six years. 'This Is What Winning Looks Like' is his disturbing documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces and the role of US Marines dur… Full story

I Spent the Weekend Watching Topless Feminists Piss Off Neo-Nazis

Last Friday, I took the Eurostar from London to Paris to meet the topless feminist protest group Femen. Originally based in the Ukraine, the organization has since spread out across the world. The idea was to film the buildup to Femen's next protest, but I didn't find out quite w… Full story

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Egypt on the Brink - Women Under Assault

VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi meets with some local activists around Tahrir Square to learn about the horrible conditions female protesters have been put in while their country has been turned upside down. Full story

This Week in Racism

Happy Confederate Memorial Day!

If you’ve ever pined for the good ol’ days of manners, gentlemanly behavior, long sips of lemonade on the porch during a hot day, and ungodly human bondage, then this is the holiday for you. And, like the LAPD, Ann Coulter, and the state of Michigan, you're a racist. Full story

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Meet Kalpana Saroj, India's Dalit Queen

VICE co-founder Shane Smith meets real-life slum-dog millionaire Kalpana Saroj, who was once a Dalit at the very bottom of the Indian caste system and earned only pennies a day in a sweatshop. She eventually became a talented tailor, making $5 every day, and then miraculously ros… Full story

Laos Is Still Under Attack from Its Secret War

Every day, a team of 20 women wake up knowing the jobs they have to go to could get them blown to smithereens: unexploded American cluster bombs dropped during the secret war in Laos could detonate at any moment as they clear dangerous landmines from Laos with their metal detecto… Full story

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This Is What Winning Looks Like - Trailer

Filmmaker and author Ben Anderson went to Afghanistan in 2007 and stayed for six years. 'This Is What Winning Looks Like' is his disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces and the role of US Marines… Full story

The VICE Podcast Show - Have We Won in Afghanistan?

This week on the podcast we speak with author and filmmaker Ben Anderson, who has just returned from Helmand, the most violent province in Afghanistan. With US forces withdrawing, most of the country is now controlled by the Afghan government and its security forces, which people… Full story

The Fight to Save America's Best Free College

President Bharucha probably wasn’t too happy when, yesterday morning, 50 students took over his office at Cooper Union. He had left the building minutes before. Since the occupation started, 200 students and the entire tenured faculty of the art department, have signed a vote of… Full story

Occupying Cooper Union to Keep It Free

Occupiers have pledged to nonviolently resist attempts to evict them from Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha's office. They've declared it “a tuition-free zone,” instigating a standoff between themselves and an institution seeking a new economic model where students would ha… Full story