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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Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives: Creating a Full-Fledged Support System
Only roughly half of the 50 states have worker co-op statutes on the books.
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Triumph Of Song: Syrian Musicians Who Fled Civil War Build A New Orchestra In Germany
Founded by musician-activists in Bremen, the orchestra composed of Syrian and local musicians came together to push back against the fearmongering and xenophobia that has arisen due to the refugee crisis in Europe.
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How Podemos Works: The Party Born from Spain's Indignados Holds Great Lessons for U.S.
Since it's the takeover of our democratic process by big money that makes most Americans angry, Podemos is a story from which Americans could take heart.
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Elizabeth Warren Lobbying Query Leads Brookings Institution Fellow To Quit
A prominent Brookings fellow resigned after the Massachusetts senator accused him of failing to fully disclose industry funding tied to a study that criticized the U.S. Labor Department's plan to regulate brokerages.
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What It Takes To Expose Corruption – For Ghana's Top Undercover Journalist, A Good Disguise
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has a range of tools he uses when trying o expose government corruption – from an array of wigs, prosthetic masks and tiny cameras, to feigning madness, posing as a street hawker and even dressing up as a rock.
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After Record Pollution, Parisians See Blue Sky As Climate Summit's Host Goes Car-Free
A rise in air pollution this year made France's capital the most polluted city in the world – so when Mayor Anne Hidalgo launched the idea of a car-free day, carbon exhaust was top of the agenda with the COP-21 conference close at hand.
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Border Patrol Agent Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Mexican Teenager
Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.
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Mayan People's Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala
Indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when Congress repealed legislation protecting Monsanto's GMO plant varieties in the Central American country.
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The Sustainable Development Goals: A Siren and Lullaby for Our Times
The inequality goal allows current trends of income concentration to increase until 2029 before they start to decline – and totally ignores the structure of an economic system that creates inequality.
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Pope Francis, Bernie Sanders and the Popular Demand for Systemic Change
Two men in their 70s have been sparking the imagination and passions of American progressives, both have been featured on the cover of Time magazine – and both agree that the system is broken and radical transformation is necessary.
