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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Striking Los Angeles Teachers Won Big. Here's What Their Victory Means.
The successful L.A. teachers strike helps move the balance of power in California and nationally toward public education, and against both austerity and the privatization of education through charter schools.
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What the U.K. Can Learn from Portugal’s Socialist Government Success Story
Since coming to power three years ago, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has dissolved austerity measures like cuts to pensions and salaries – fostering record-breaking economic growth in the process.
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Recycling Is Not Enough. Zero-Packaging Stores Show We Can Kick Our Plastic Addiction
Can we dispose with our disposable mentality by doing something to cut down on all the packaging of our food and beverages? Some places like Australia are showing us how.
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Majority of Americans Support a 70% Tax Rate for Mega-Rich
So much for a “radical” idea: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to raise America’s highest tax rate to 70 percent seems to be popular with a solid majority of Americans.
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"Quite A Radical Policy": Manchester Bans Fracking In Victory for U.K. Activists
In a move that could have repercussions on the fracking industry nationwide, Manchester in northwest England has announced that it is effectively banning the practice.
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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration's Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman found that Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross committed "egregious" violations of the Administrative Procedures Act by adding the citizenship question on the 2020 census.
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Uniting for a Green New Deal
The Green New Deal provides an opportunity for transformational changes, not just reform, but changes that fundamentally solve the crises we face at all levels, in our towns and cities, states and nationally.
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Shutoffs Continue As People of Detroit Fight for Water As A Human Right, Part II
The activists working hardest against the water crisis in Detroit are high school students, college professors, priests and volunteers – all disrupting a system that side-stepped popular votes.
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1.4 Million Floridians Just Got Their Voting Rights Back, Whether Republicans Like It Or Not
It's the largest number of people to gain access to the ballot all at once since American women won the right to vote in 1920.
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Why The Public Banking Movement Is Up Against the Ropes In 2019
The movement must go left to go forward.
