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.
Organized Resistance
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What Would Jesus Do? Jail the Bankers!
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren echoes millions of Americans with her call to see bankers stand trial for their crimes against the country's people and economy.
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100,000 Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act
This is the fight of the century: either corporations like Monsanto will rule America with an iron fist or we will rise up and take our country back.
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Tunisian Woman Sent to a Psychiatric Hospital for Posting Topless Photos on Facebook
Amina, a 19-year-old who hoped to join the radical protest group Femen, is also threatened with death by stoning.
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Canadian and U.S. Native People Vow to Block Oil Pipelines
An alliance of Canadian and U.S. aboriginal groups vowed last week to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands.
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Nationwide Protests Escalate Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Thirty-seven people had been arrested as of Wednesday during a week when dozens of countrywide actions aimed to halt the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Book Review: "The Beginning of the American Fall"
Comics journalist Stephanie McMillan recounts the burgeoning influence, successes and failures of Occupy Wall Street, from hopeful inception to uncertain future, in her latest graphic novel.
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Brooklyn Rises Up in Protest of Police Shooting
East Flatbush rises up after an unarmed 16-year-old is shot seven times by police.
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In Zurich, and Across Europe, Squatter Communities Are Strengthening
Last weekend, 4,000 supporters of Binz, Zurich’s longest-established squat, were met with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons when a party turned into a march to protest their imminent eviction.
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Strike Debt Abolishes $1 million in Emergency Room Debt
Strike Debt bought and abolished over $1 million in debt from emergency rooms in Kentucky and Indiana.
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From Texas to Appalachia, Putting Our Bodies on the Line
Protests against fracking pipelines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are part of a growing movement of direct-action community resistance happening nationwide.
