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 Calls for "Political Revolution" Against Billionaire Class
"I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires. We need a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.”
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Finland's Elections Reveal Functional Democracy In a Divided Society
Finland is also not immune to the growing politics of prejudice surging in Europe since the financial crash.
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New Bill Could Spur Growth of Worker Cooperatives in California
The bill eases barriers to raising capital and allowing people to invest in worker coops, taking a step toward a solution to the state's growing income inequality.
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Chipotle Becomes First Fast Food Chain to Go GMO-Free
Starting this week, Chipotle’s 1,831 restaurants are now using non-GMO corn and has made a switch from soybean oil to GMO-free sunflower oil and rice bran oil for their cooking.
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Stepping Out From Shadow of Patriot Act, It's Time To End NSA Data Collection
Maintaining a database of phone records upends a fundamental premise of the Constitution – the government should intrude on Americans’ private lives only if it has probable cause to suspect criminal activity.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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With Elections A Week Away, Which British Party Can Deliver On Climate Promises?
If the next U.K. government is to take the climate crisis by the horns, rhetoric must be replaced by concrete action – something the majority in Britain have long been awaiting.
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Why Bernie Sanders Is the Only Populist Candidate for President
Whether or not this opponent of the billionaire class, corporate greed, Wall Street and environmental degradation – and this champion of working people, the unemployed, retirees, and student debtors – is our next president will be entirely up to us.
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Danish Wind Power Shatters Records, But Opposition Still Stands In the Way
Wind power in Denmark has created tens of thousands of jobs, yet it's still facing stiff opposition from corporations and politicians.
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In Sham Congress, Senators Reach Deal On Massive Free Trade Bill No One Has Seen
Congress’s tax committees announced an agreement Thursday to speed through a bill to give President Barack Obama the Trans-Pacific Partnership fast-track authority.
