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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The Warren Proposal: Postal Banking Is Key Financial Reform In the Public Good
The postal financial services Senator Elizabeth Warren suggests are important first steps toward democratizing our economy.
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Seeking Climatic Shift, U.K. Pension Investments Are Starting to Undercut Big Oil
People invest money through pensions into industries that cause climate change, often unknowingly and against their own financial interest.
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It's Drought and Climate Change – Not Pot Growers – Killing the Salmon in Humboldt
Without rain in California, the water level won't rise, and so the salmon have spawned here, in water that is too warm, too full of sediment and too shallow.
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NATO 3 Acquitted of Terrorism Charges As Police Informants Lose At Their Own Game
Convicted on two counts of arson and “mob action” but acquitted on much more serious terrorism charges, the NATO 3 trial marks an important step forward helping to reshape public opinion and end the war on terror.
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Elizabeth Warren: Coming to a Post Office Near You – Loans You Can Trust
The U.S. Postal Service is exploring offering basic banking services – bill paying, check cashing, small loans – to its customers and partnering with banks to serve tens of millions of Americans who lack checking or savings accounts.
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Europe's Slow City Movement Puts Sustainability and Community At the Forefront
The Slow City movement hopes to provide an antidote against negative globalization.
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Xenophobia in San Francisco: Why Are Muslim Schoolgirls Still Getting Bullied?
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
'From Hurricane Andrew in Miami to the massive floods of the Red River in the Upper Midwest, I've been privileged to listen as women shared what they did in disasters and how they felt.'
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Corruption Report Slams E.U. Countries for $162 Billion "Abuse of Power for Private Gain"
The first-ever E.U.-wide study on corruption found that the billions lost annually to padded government contracts, covert political financing and bribes for health care could fund the entire E.U. budget.
