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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Independent Or Not, Scotland Is Building A Media For the 99%
New Scottish media platforms are thriving as the region's eclectic, creative, evolving, non-corporate and critical news landscape looks to grow even further into a media challenging the status qu
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"Corporations Are Not People": A Lawyer's Book About Fighting Back Against Corporate Personhood
After Citizens United, says Jeff Clements, “I felt that I couldn't just leave it at that, that democracy is really on the line, that the country is on the line – I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that humanity is on the line.”
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New York Bans Fracking In Landmark Decision
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet agreed Wednesday to prohibit the widely used gas-drilling technique in the state, citing health issues and dubious economic benefits.
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The U.S. and Cuba are Now on Equal Terms for the First Time in Generations
For most of the half-century since the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations, Washington fought a war of economic attrition that affected millions.
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The Wizard of Odds: Trend Forecaster Talks Third Party Politics and the Next Occupy
Suppose for a moment that everyone in the Occupy movement was in a jacket and tie and behaving to the norms of corporate or cultured society. Would the police go in and beat the shit out of them?
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Waiting for Santa Klaus In Romania, All Eyes Turn to Incoming Germanic President
He's friends with Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel, a best-selling author, and has a wife who cooks excellent meatball soup. Romania is ready for its Transylvanian president with German flare and know-how.
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Spain's Podemos Leader: "Politics Is About Strength, It Is Not About Wishes Or What We Say In Assemblies"
Pablo Iglesias, who heads the country's rising populist party that emerged from the 15-M Movement, talks about what it takes to build mass movements.
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On Sideline of Budget Crisis, Congress Protects 1 Million Acres of National Parks and Wilderness Areas
Dozens of land conservation bills, which were added to a defense spending bill approved on Friday, protect more than 1 million acres of national parks, wilderness areas, and wild and scenic rivers.
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Endorsing Public Banks and Worker Coops, Amara Enyia Mounts a Mayoral Campaign In Chicago
What makes Enyia’s ideas about governing revolutionary is that they're policies which hardwire economic justice and sustainability into the institutions themselves.
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Berlin's Container Policy Called Racist
An anti-refugee wave has swept across Berlin as the December opening of six refugee container settlements nears – with one in 10 Germans now supporting National Socialism.