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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An Economy that Works for All: Learning from the UK's Labour Manifesto
What Bernie Sanders is not talking about is a more thorough transformation of the economy that would democratize wealth and how it is created – like the UK Labour Party is proposing.
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Cutting Out Wall Street – And Putting the “Public” in Public Banking
Private interests’ influence over banking consumes, rather than sustains, the public good.
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Dear Democratic Party: It's Time to Stop Rigging the Primaries
If Democrats want any hope of voting Trump out, they must fix the broken primary system before the next election.
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Rebel Cities 6: How Jackson, Mississippi Is Making the Economy Work for the People
Through participatory democracy and building counter-power, Jackson is organizing, and co-designing, an escape from capitalism and structural racism.
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From Iowa to Oklahoma to Louisiana, States Seek Harsher Penalties for Pipeline Protesters
The bills drafted by the powerful and ultra-conservative American Legislation Exchange Council would translate into harsh fines and jail sentences for those who trespass or damage any pipeline construction.
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Germany's Metalworkers Win the 28-Hour Workweek, and Industry Takes Notice
"It shows this cultural change – that people are interested in a better work-life balance and no longer in just more money," said economist Carsten Brzeski.
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Why the Only Answer is to Break Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks
If the Fed's latest proposal to water down the Volcker Rule goes through, we’ll be nearly back to where we were before the crash of 2008.
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Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op
When employees make decisions and advocate for themselves, good things happen – like, when the business is profitable, they share in those profits rather than see the money doled out to shareholders.
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Blackstone, BlackRock, or a Public Bank? Putting California’s Funds to Work
California has over $700 billion parked in private banks earning minimal interest, private equity funds that contributed to the affordable housing crisis, or shadow banks of the sort that caused the banking collapse of 2008.
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Is the Postal Banking Movement Being Too Careful to Succeed?
Failure of imagination at the top undermines hard work at the grassroots. Because at the end of the day, a people’s banking system strikes bipartisan terror in the hearts of the elites.
