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 New Hampshire Rebellion and Lawrence Lessig’s March to End Corruption
The Harvard constitutional scholar and activist says his recent 185-mile trek is encouraging voters to ask every presidential candidate who soon will be haunting the Granite State how they will end the system of corruption in Washington.
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Anti-Pipeline Leader Warns Obama, for Planet and Own Legacy, to “Say No to Big Oil“
Last week, Bill Moyers spoke with Bill McKibben about his hopes that Americans will collectively pressure Obama to stand up to Big Oil.
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German Television Gets First Edward Snowden Interview
Late last month, the German television channel NDR got an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden.
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Film Premiere: "Red Ink" A Film About Money, Politics and Media in America
"Red Ink" takes the Occupy movement as an entry point to look at the American state apparatus, specifically how politics, money and media are interwoven.
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Legalize Democracy: The Film
"Legalize Democracy" is a 30-minute film by Dennis Trainor, Jr., about the movement to amend — why it is needed, and how you can get involved.
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Julian Assange to Future Snowdens: "Join the CIA."
Assange urged information technology specialists to join forces to resist government encroachments on Internet freedom.
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This Bad Santa Leaves Lumps of Black Coal in Your Lung Instead of Your Stocking
The coal industry is going to great lengths to screw former miners out of their black lung disability benefits.
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Strike Debt abolished $15m of people's debt
Strike Debt - an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street Movement - launched a project to buy up debt belonging to ordinary Americans and abolish it so that they never have to pay it back.
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Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade: What Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership?
A U.S.-led trade deal is currently being negotiated that could increase the price of prescription drugs, weaken financial regulations and even allow partner countries to challenge American laws. But few know its substance.
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Grand Theft Rockaway: Money Vs. Hospitals
One year after Hurricane Sandy hit, public healthcare in the Rockaways is in some ways even more dire than it was during the storm. Peninsula Hospital, one of only two remaining hospitals, was shut down in April 2012 and the last one, St.