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.
Advocacy & Reforms
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San Francisco May Soon Adopt Retail Workers Bill of Rights
Proposed legislation would eliminate erratic scheduling and extend protections to part-time employees.
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Tackling Climate Change And Remaking the Economy – In Navajo Country
A proposed community-owned solar project on an abandoned coal mine in Arizona illustrates how cooperative economics make it possible to stop extracting fossil fuels — without leaving workers behind.
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Spending Not Lending: How Government Can End the Student Debt Crisis Today
Instead of loaning students money, the federal government could just pay for the tuition without causing any significant economic problems. There is no fiscal reason why the student debt crisis should exist.
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Coal-Free By 2025: Why Denmark Leads the Global Fight Against Climate Change
The Nordic nation of 5.6 million has been at the forefront of wind power innovation since the 1890s, when one of its leading scientists, Poul la Cour, began testing turbines.
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Do We Live on a One-Party Planet?
A new pamphlet, released today, is an attempt to answer this question – and the case we make is, yes, it not only makes sense to think of planetary control in these terms, but it is essential.
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Net Neutrality Shows People Can Make the Politically Impossible the Politically Inevitable
Last week was a turning point in a seven month campaign to save the Internet – proof that even in a government corrupted by money, united and mobilized people who act strategically with creative tactics can win.
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Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
With animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make.
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Elizabeth Warren: It’s Time To Work On America’s Agenda
For all the talk of change in Washington, one thing has not changed: the stock market and gross domestic product keep going up, while families are getting squeezed hard by an economy that isn’t working for them.
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How Voters In Richmond, Calif., Defied Chevron Money To Re-Elect Progressives
The oil giant spent more than $3 million on the Richmond election, but voters rejected the candidates Chevron supported in favor of a scrappy, volunteer-driven coalition.
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Red Cross Launches Emergency Food Aid In U.K. for First Time Since WWII
Amid harsh welfare cuts, the economic downturn, and with winter fast approaching, the charity has been asked to step in and help Britain's starving families.
