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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The Public Banking Movement Has Always Been About Justice
The most inspiring proponents of public banking, like the earliest religious banking advocates, recognized that wealth inequality is arbitrary and dehumanizing.
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Capturing Minds: Is There Life After Facebook?
The new crypto-social network Minds allows for the same level of high-functioning interaction as Facebook, but a big difference is that it is completely open-source, decentralized and user-owned.
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Rebel Cities, 1: "Marielle Franco Presente!"
The brutal murder last month of Marielle Franco – Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, sociologist, single mother and leading light in Brazil's Feminist Spring – has reverberated across the world.
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How Privatization Sparked the Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising
For more than a decade, state legislators—Democrats and Republicans alike—have marched the state off the proverbial financial cliff, then used budget shortfalls to push privatization.
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Britain Seeing Wide Gender Pay Gap As Company Reports Trickle In
Fewer than one in seven U.K. women earns more than her male counterpart in the same company. Men also take home £1 in bonuses for every 27 pence that women earn.
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Seizing the Public Banking Moment
Public banks can finance a quick post-carbon transition, guarantee employment in communities, facilitate payments of universal basic income, and ensure that state and municipal budgets are always healthy.
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The Role of Youth In the Coming Transformation
One of the slogans in the actions against gun violence is “adults failed to solve the problem.” The truth is, those currently in power have failed on many fronts, e.g. climate change, wealth disparity, racial injustice, lack of health care and more.
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5 Indigenous Women Asserting the Modern Matriarchy
They’re reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
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Change Is Coming: Grassroots Organizing, Democratic Politics and the 2018 Elections
Progressive politicians can engage directly with citizens to build an organizational backbone that will last for multiple election cycles and operate in between elections as well.
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Is Drinking Water in the U.S. Safe? Not By a Long Shot
That nasty tasting water from the faucet that you’ve been rejecting in favor of an unhealthy soda might actually have unsafe quantities of lead, nitrates, arsenic and disease-causing pathogens.