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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Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition'
Redirecting a small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report.
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Polish Climate Movement Stages First Mass Civil Disobedience Against Coal
35 climate defenders peacefully stormed the Kopalnia Tomisławice open-pit coal mine earlier this month in Poland, part of a wave of climate activism that signals a movement coming to maturity.
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Hong Kong Police Fire Rubber Bullets As Protests Turn Violent
A major anti-government march in Hong Kong descended into chaos late on Sunday, as police fired teargas on protesters and unidentified masked men attacked commuters returning from the demonstration.
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The ‘Summer Uprising’ and the Meteoric Rise of Extinction Rebellion
Hailed as heroes by those with an environmental conscience, the protestors are succeeding in driving climate change to the forefront of public awareness and piercing the bubble of denial.
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Congress to Vote This Week on Doubling the Minimum Wage
This is the longest period the minimum wage has gone without an increase since it was enacted in the 1930s.
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Hong Kong Protests Expand in Geography and Goals
Thousands of people marched Sunday in a populous Hong Kong suburb, calling not just for the complete withdrawal of a bill allowing extradition to China but also the right to vote for their leaders.
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'Protesters as terrorists': growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime
Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests that disrupt the construction and operation of pipelines in at least 18 states since 2017.
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Rebel Cities 26: These Community Wind Farms In Denmark and Scotland Are Decentralising Power to the People
Denmark and Scotland are seeing tremendous economic success in community-owned wind farms. But green municipalism doesn't need to be restricted to the wind-battered Nordic coastal fringes.
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Labor Strikes Back: A Forum on How Workers Can Win
Based on recent labor activism by teachers and workers, there is a clear opportunity to build a “mass movement from below” and bring a bottom (99%) versus top (1%) progressive strategy to the 2020 elections.
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How Businesses Have Changed Since the #MeToo Movement
Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women’s rights movement a half century ago.
