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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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police
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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Green New Deal, Part VI: End Corporate Welfare Before It Kills Us
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
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Green New Deal, Part V: We Must Break the Corporate Bailout 'Logic' to Tackle Covid-19 and Climate
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
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As Capitalism Drives Us Toward Extinction, What Does Real Climate Justice Look Like?
Although we can no longer prevent climate change, we can participate in climate justice, which demands bold actions by communities to build a new regenerative economy and expose false solutions.
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Green New Deal, Part IV: Britain's Snap Election Offers a Life or Death Choice
Britain's fast approaching General Election on Dec. 12 represents a life or death decision for the country's two major parties – and, of significant more consequence, for the planet. Voters can back Labour's Green New Deal and act on the climate emergency, or they can elect the Conservative Party pushing an ever more destructive form of capitalism.
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Americans Love Youth Activism – But Only When Their Children Agree With Them
Once teenage activists take movements into territories that might be unappealing or uncomfortable for adult supporters, those same individuals who praised them often back away.
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Youth In Rich Countries Cannot Save the Planet Alone
To tackle climate change, as a primarily youth-led movement, the burden cannot rest mostly on young people in the richest countries or those countries that have liberal policies on public protest.
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Renewables Against Fascism: How A Green New Deal Can Beat the Far Right
Enacting a Green New Deal in rural Europe, old factories would be transformed into community solar workshops and abandoned buildings would be converted into community wind farms.
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Gulf of Mexico States Believe In Climate Change, Even if Their Elected Leaders Don’t
Polls show a majority of people in Gulf Coast states say the threat of climate change is real – and they increasingly expect their Republican elected officials to address the crisis.
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Whaley Bridge Dam Collapse Brings Climate Change Home to Britain
As a small Derbyshire community struggles to regain normalcy after a devastating dam collapse, the event is being linked to climate change and the volatile, extreme weather in the UK.
