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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Now Is the Moment To Win the Battle Over the Tar Sands
"Peoples' movements will either succeed in transforming our economic and political systems to build a new world, or we will burn with the old one."
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Climate Change Economics and the Global Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
As of September 19, 181 institutions and local governments and 656 individuals representing over $50 billion in assets have pledged to divest from fossil fuels.
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Proposed Fracked Gas Pipeline Sparks Opposition In Virginia and West Virginia
If construction crews come on 78-year-old Virginia landowner Andrew Gantt's property, “Then I’ll lie down under their bulldozer. I’m serious.”
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Anti-Fracking Protests Go Global As Europeans Refuse Corporate Trade Pact
Thousands marched in dozens of countries last weekend to reject fracking while more than 1,000 actions occurred across Europe in opposition to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
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Cuomo Administration Edited and Delayed Fracking Study
The report, commissioned by New York state in 2011, was going to result in a number of politically inconvenient truths for the governor.
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What the Cowboy-Indian Alliance Means for America and the Climate Movement
The alliance that's developed in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has had far-reaching effects beyond environmental concerns – digging into America's colonial, racist legacy.
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Why the Battle Against the Tar Sands Is About to Change
Over the past few months, resistance to the tar sands has not only grown in leaps and bounds – it is changing the dynamics of the entire fight in Canada and beyond.
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150 Protesters Disrupt Coal And Rail Operations In Southeast Australia
Activists chained themselves to access points at the Maules Creek project as others scaled the coal loader at the Werris Creek mine, and one protestor climbed a tripod to block mining access.
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After the People’s Climate March, It Is Time To Demand More
Precious time will tell what lasting impacts the demonstrations will have – but already the climate protests that shook New York and much of the world left their mark upon upper echelon spheres of power.
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State of the Climate Movement: Rowdy and Getting Rowdier
Marches around the country last week showed diversity among a new and growing cohort of activists taking climate justice to new levels of resistance.
