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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From Occupation To Reconstruction: This Movement Is Just Beginning
The networks of activists that formed in the midst of 2011’s worldwide wave of protest are no longer focusing on opposing an unjust system – they’re testing ways to replace it with something new.
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As Global Crises Mount, Can Corporations Make the Big Pivot?
Business leaders are increasingly willing to address critiques brought forth by environmentalists, social justice advocates and social movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring.
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Free Farmers, Food Liberty: This Fourth of July, Local Growers Declare Independence
We ask those growing our food to speak up for themselves and announce their statement of liberty: What does food freedom mean to you?
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Time for Rebellion: All Issues Lead to the Corrupting Influence of Money In Politics
Less than 1% of Americans contribute 80% of campaign funds – and the amount of political payback on a national level hovers around 40,000 times the original dollar amount given to a campaign.
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New Rights, New System: Spanish Social Movement Releases "A Charter for Democracy"
A democracy created among all people is possible – a democracy not reduced to merely voting, but founded on participation, citizen control and equal rights.
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U.S. Mayors Adopt Postal Banking Resolutions – $1 Trillion Boost at Zero Taxpayer Cost
By offering inexpensive financial services, the U.S. Post Office can drive out financial predators, restore billions of dollars to low-income neighborhoods and generate thousands of jobs funding infrastructure projects.
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New Economy Solutions: Convert Your Business Into A Worker-Owned Cooperative
For retiring business owners as well as entrepreneurs, selling a business to employees is a way to strengthen the business while getting a return on investment.
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Unstoppable: America's Growing Food Safety Movement
Despite the overwhelming popularity of labeling, Congress refused to act – so citizens took up the cause in their own states.
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Supreme Court Endorses Cellphone Privacy Rights In Landmark Ruling
All nine justices joined the Wednesday ruling in asserting that police must obtain a warrant to search the contents of cellphones seized from people they have arrested.
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Majority Rule: Defending Democracy with a Constitutional Amendment
Working to ban the influence of money in politics, three U.S. senators already have 43 co-signers, more than 2 million names on petitions and the endorsement of 500 communities in 16 states.
