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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Justice Deferred: The Espionage Act and Reality Winner's Imprisonment
“I’ve never been an advocate-activist type of person, but this really permeated me," said Wendy Meer Collins, an advocate on behalf of the imprisoned whistleblower Reality Winner. "It just seemed so wrong.”
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Fury As Bolsonaro Orders Brazil Army to Mark 55th Anniversary of Military Coup
Victims of Brazil’s dictatorship are outraged after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro ordered the country’s armed forces to commemorate the anniversary of a 1964 coup which unleashed 21 years of military rule.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 3.0: Lobbying and Bribing To Secure Market Dominance
The amount that Amazon has spent purchasing political influence has recently skyrocketed – quadrupling from the $3 million it spent on lobbying in 2013 to $14.4 million last year.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 2.0: Our Government’s Faustian Bargain for Cloud Storage
Amazon provides is unmatched providing cloud storage to our federal government, gubernatorial organizations and local municipalities, with over 2,000 agencies now dependant on AWS.
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Amazon’s Underbelly 1.0: Bolstering the Surveillance State with Rekognition
The potential abuse of this software for surveillance and data harvesting purposes is so troubling that some of Amazon’s shareholders have pleaded with the company to forgo selling its facial recognition technology to the government.
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Defense Tech Startup Founded By Trump's Most Prominent Silicon Valley Supporters Wins Secretive Military AI Contract
The previously unreported Project Maven contract could be a boon for Anduril Industries, which wants to remake the defense contracting industry by incorporating the latest innovations of Silicon Valley into warfighting technology.
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'Outrageous Violation of First Amendment': Leaked Docs Reveal Trump Tracked Journalists and Rights Advocates at Border
The government is keeping a list of journalists and "instigators" that were involved with the so-called migrant caravan from the last months of 2018 and early 2019 in a database.
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Environmental Defender Murdered in Mexico Days Before Vote on Pipeline Project
Samir Flores Soberanes had challenged the words of government representatives at a forum about the construction of a gas pipeline and two thermoelectric plants, a day before his murder.
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Homelessness and Hate Crimes Set to Rise in Post-Brexit Britain
As Brexit bedlam intensifies and Britain edges closer to its agonizing E.U. departure date of March 29, grim reports are surfacing about the real impacts the move will have on U.K. citizens' safety and well being.
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Texas's "Unlawful Purge" of Thousands of Voters
Officials are being accused of compiling a flawed list of voters that could see tens of thousands of naturalized citizens wrongly expunged from rolls.
