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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Targeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, A San Francisco Gathering Asks "What's Possible?"
A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, seeks to shed light less on the crises we face and more on the solutions to those crises.
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Bernie Sanders's "Political Revolution" Can Only Come About if He Abandons the Democrats
Bernie's message of taking on the billionaire class, making four-year college free and breaking up the big banks is resonating with everyday folks – and if he breaks with the Democrats to run as an Independent, his support will surge.
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London School of Tropical Medicine Divests From Coal
The institution became the first health research organization in the world to sell off investments in coal companies from its £16 million endowment.
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Homelessness in Los Angeles Rises 12%
A sluggish economic recovery has left the poorest residents of the second-largest U.S. metropolitan area falling farther behind.
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California Leads New Community Energy Model Speeding U.S. Move To Renewables
Sewage and solar power may be odd bedfellows in the race to save the climate. But in Sonoma County, Calif., an experiment is underway to install the nation’s largest floating solar array on wastewater treatment ponds.
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We're Building a Moral Commons, and We're All in This Together
The scars of our fear smolder in Baltimore and other cities, but as we turn towards one another we need to feed another part of ourselves – collective justice, economic justice, materialized empathy.
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Free College, Cancelled Debt: Will This Soon Be America's Reality?
In an exciting development, Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced matching resolutions to guarantee that all students have access to debt-free college educations.
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NSA Phone Surveillance Revealed By Edward Snowden Ruled Illegal
The U.S. court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way for a full legal challenge against the National Security Agency.
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What Alberta's shocking election results could mean for the oil sands
As Alberta overthrows its oil-rich conservatives, the world is waiting to see what it will mean for the infamous Oil Sands.
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Democrats Push for $12 Minimum With "Raise the Wage Act"
Party leaders are rallying behind new legislation that would raise the wage to $12 an hour, well beyond the $10.10 effort that failed to pass when Democrats controlled the Senate.
