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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Rebel Cities 6: How Jackson, Mississippi Is Making the Economy Work for the People
Through participatory democracy and building counter-power, Jackson is organizing, and co-designing, an escape from capitalism and structural racism.
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"Let's Not Subsidize Our Own Extinction": Rallies Across Canada Denounce Trudeau's Kinder Morgan Buyout
Demonstrators took to the streets at more than 100 locations across Canada on Monday in a grassroots effort to stop the Kinder Morgan "buyout."
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Indigenous Women Have Been Disappearing For Generations. Politicians Are Finally Starting To Notice.
Women on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington state didn’t have any particular term for the way the violent deaths and sudden disappearances of their sisters, mothers, friends, and neighbors had become woven into everyday life.
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Germany's Metalworkers Win the 28-Hour Workweek, and Industry Takes Notice
"It shows this cultural change – that people are interested in a better work-life balance and no longer in just more money," said economist Carsten Brzeski.
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Rebel Cities 5: Bologna Again Takes Center Stage Resisting Italian Fascism
Coalizione Civica (Civic Coalition) is challenging Italy's far-right lurch, pushing radical municipalist values such as rights to the city, ecological sustainability and social inclusion.
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Hospitality Workers In Vegas Threaten to Strike for a New ‘New Deal’
Union workers representing 50,000 bartenders, housekeepers, room attendants, cocktail and restaurant servers, hotel porters, chefs, kitchen staff and cashiers are prepared to strike on June 1.
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NFL Caves to Trump
The league will now fine teams if players kneel during the national anthem, providing Trump with a culture war victory.
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“We Are Going to Not Allow Kinder Morgan to Finish This Pipeline”
Not only is resistance to the pipeline growing from the local community, indigenous rights groups and U.S.-based environmental groups, but even the financial community thinks the economics and changing energy market is stacked against it.
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Landmark Lawsuit Claims Monsanto Hid Cancer Danger of Weedkiller for Decades
A California groundskeeper will make history by taking the company to trial on claims it suppressed harm of Roundup.
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We Are Living Through A Golden Age of Protest
We are seeing a level of organizing with little precedent – but it’s time for stronger forms of demonstration, such as sit-ins and street blockades.