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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Mexico vs. Monsanto: A Fight for the Future of Maize
They are going to serve up transgenic maize on every table in spite of the fact that food sovereignty depends on growing native corn.
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NASA's James Hansen Takes the Case Against Tar Sands to Britain
Hansen accused the Canadian government of "holding a club" over the U.K. and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil, while a new study confirmed that 97% of climate reports attribute climate change to human actions.
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Portland Residents Debate Austerity Cuts Ahead of Final City Budget
Along a stretch of sidewalk in front of Portland's City Hall, some 50 people stood braving the rain in the hours before the city's final public budget hearing last week, where heavy austerity cuts are expected to go through.
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A New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers and Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
Want to see who's really selling you that box of sugar?
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Revealed: Atlantans Lost Nearly $1 Billion in Wealth Due to Foreclosures in 2012
Communities of color lost more than double the wealth of predominantly white communities in the Atlanta housing crisis in 2012.
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In AP Scandal, Mainstream Media Gets a Taste of Government Medicine
Corporate media just got nailed with a crackdown on whistleblowing, the kind activists have experienced in heavy doses. Lo and behold, mainstream journalists don't like what they're being told to swallow.
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Genetically Modified Justice: Why the Supreme Court Ruled for Monsanto
Farmers must pay Monsanto each time they plant the company’s genetically modified soybeans, the Supreme Court ruled this week, rejecting an Indiana farmer’s argument that his unorthodox techniques did not violate the company’s patent.
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How Big Oil and the GOP Subverted American Democracy
Morally twisted right-wing orthodoxy has taken the “conserve” out of conservatism, as GOP honchos' knee jerk slavishness to petroleum interests have infected America.
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Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
In this Chapter Five excerpt from his new book, "What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next Revolution," Alperovitz talks about what's wrong with our political and economic systems and how we can transform them.
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Following Backlash, Tennessee Gov Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
After thousands of Tennesseans protested the new law, Gov. Bill Haslam has vetoed his state’s “ag-gag” bill that would have criminalized undercover investigations at horse stables and factory farm facilities.
