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.
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Bernie Sanders's Highly Sensible Plan to Turn Post Offices Into Banks
Postal banking is common worldwide, and is a good way to reach people who don't have access to standard savings accounts.
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Can Rent Control Make A Comeback In Priced-Out Northern California?
Richmond, infamous for its troubled oil refinery, becomes ground zero in the fight for affordable housing in the Bay Area.
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Canada Lurches Left As Justin Trudeau Victory Ends Neo-Conservative Era
Like the surge of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary in the U.S. and the nomination of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in the U.K., Canada’s election of a Liberal government under Justin Trudeau signals a sea change.
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German Businesses See Migrants As Rich Opportunity For National Renewal
"Refugees present a chance and a challenge for us in Germany," said Thomas Sperveslage, a personnel manager at a construction company, and "we should do everything we can to help people integrate and adapt."
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Interior Department Halts Arctic Offshore Drilling Leases
The Friday news follows a Sept. 28 announcement by Shell that it would cease exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas after spending $7 billion on Arctic exploration.
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Berkeley's "Uncharted" Festival Brings Big Minds and Ideas Together
The city that birthed the Free Speech Movement and was the staging ground for America's cultural revolution of the 1960s is now building on that past with a festival to reinvigorate the spirit of active political and intellectual debate.
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New Network Of UK Political Activists Builds Power Around Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn
The election of the outspoken left-wing leader marked a sea change in British politics and encouraged droves to jump into party activism – now there's a new way for them to do it with the launch of the grassroots network Momentum.
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New California Law Requires Police to Get a Warrant Before Accessing Your Data
Under the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law late last week, officers will have to convince a judge that there is enough probable cause to justify a digital data search.
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In the Era of the Hunger Artist, We're Crowdfunding Just to Survive
Welcome to nightmare capitalism, survival-by-popularity, the real Hunger Games: where we're forced to go online and crowdfund our way to rent payments, child support, illness recovery and more.
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Rebel City of the Commons, Part II
Rebel Cities are desirable as a form of disobedience that defy states, legal frameworks, supranations or markets.
