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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Lawmakers In Sacramento Push Forward Two Bills To End the Influence of Money In Politics
SB1272 and AJR1 are key examples of grassroots movements using the system to change the system – to #GetMoneyOut of politics.
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New York City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever
New York City taxpayers are still paying for the NYPD's approach to policing lawful protest.
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Mayors Nationwide Build Support for Postal Banking As USPS Delays Action
Our nation's mayors are acutely aware of the impact of predatory lending.
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Why Californians Are Paying Double – In Interest to the Banks
The Bay Bridge retrofit was slated to cost $6.3 billion, but with interest and fees, taxpayers will shell out over $12 billion - indicative of a trend in the Golden State.
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Seattle Passes Historic $15 Minimum Wage Law, Highest In the Nation
The historic victory will benefit 100,000 working people in the city, and is expected to give momentum to minimum wage campaigns burgeoning across the U.S.
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Freedom Summer II: The Walmart Campaign
The current struggle of low-wage workers across America echoes the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
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Corporations Are Not People. Period.
80% of the American public believes corporations should not have the same rights as people. Yet our community is one of thousands that has been slapped down in the name of “corporate personhood.”
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Collaborative Consumption: Berlin's Leila Project Adds New Facet to the Share Economy
By lending out everyday household items which are provided by donation, Leila's free exchange benefits its members while fighting an over-consumption lifestyle – getting us to stop buying everything new.
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It's Three Times Cheaper to Give Housing to the Homeless Than to Keep Them on the Streets
The best way to deal with homelessness is to give homeless people homes to live in.
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How Revolutionary Movements' Fear of Money Helps the Oligarchy
We live in a revolutionary activist culture that teaches people to be afraid of money, to never ask for it, and to never openly say you want it or need it – and meanwhile, the oligarchy runs laps around us.
