The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Advocacy & Reforms
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Another Government Is Necessary: It's Time to Manifest Our Power
The launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet comes at a time when people are increasingly ready to leave the corrupt two-party system.
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Building Farms and Agriculture Policy for People — Not Corporations
From the school cafeteria to rural tomato farms to pickets the White House, people are challenging the ways in which government programs benefit big agribusiness to the detriment of small- and mid-sized farmers.
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Are People Living Near Fracking Sites Getting Sick?
It's a simple question.
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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks
The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?
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Most Americans Want A Financial Transaction Tax -- Will Congress Hear the Call?
The proposed financial transaction tax, introduced to Congress several weeks ago, would generate more than $300 billion a year in revenue. 60 percent of Americans support it. But Congress, as usual, is stalling.
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Renewable Energy—a Jobs Producer—Wins Vote in North Carolina
The Tarheel State's economy lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2007 to 2012, but clean energy development led to a net gain in employment of 21,162 "job years"—a factor that helped legislators defeat ALEC and House Bill 298.
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From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy
Here's how manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and others are doing business the cooperative way.
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Exposed: How Murdoch, Bill Gates and Big Corporations are Data Mining our Schools
The state is using its monopoly on education to benefit certain corporations—and students' personal information will be stored by News Corp.
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11 U.S. Cities Push to Dump Fossil Fuel Investments
Mayors and city councils in nearly a dozen cities announced their interest in withdrawing municipal investments from fossil fuel companies.
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Greenpeace Launches Whistleblower Site for Oil Workers
The group launched The Arctic Truth to attract whistleblowers from oil companies to reveal risks associated with drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic.
