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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Letter to Occupy: Time to Get Your Hands Dirty
Occupy, you had your moment, but it takes more than that to create a movement. Democracy is politics - you have to get involved in order to change it.
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Daryl Hannah Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline in Texas
The actor Daryl Hannah was arrested in northeast Texas on Thursday, along with a landowner as the pair protested against an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
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Making Walmart Work for Us
Workers responsible for moving an estimated $1 trillion worth of goods a year through the global economy are paid low wages, often denied breaks and basic protective gear, and are employed primarily through temp agencies. Now they are on strike.
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Letter to Occupy: What's Next?
I hope you take some time to decide how the movement will move forward in a constructive manner. Occupy a new space? Get involved electorally? Actively work to reform policy? Supporters want desperately for you to succeed at enacting long-lasting change.
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Opinion: Workers Are The 99%, Plain and Simple
We now have the battle lines clearly drawn: those who want a new society, and those who want to keep it the way it is. But our current, amorphous definition of the 99% will not provide us with an adequate paradigm to move forward.
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"Quantitative Easing": A Bank Bailout by a Different Name
The Federal Reserve's plan to create money out of nothing for the purpose of buying mortgage-backed securities will increase the already historic level of inequality that exists in the U.S.
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Russia Pushes Back Against Monsanto
Russia’s premiere consumer rights organization has suspended both the importation and use of Monsanto’s GMO corn within the nation’s borders.
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How Lawmakers and Lobbyists Keep a Lock on the Private Prison Business
Of all the public services to be outsourced, incarceration -- where the state deprives a person of liberty and assumes responsibility for his or her mental and physical well-being -- should not be auctioned for campaign contributions.
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Questions Unlikely to be Answered by Tonight's Debate
President Obama: You have spoken eloquently of the need to reduce the influence of big money in politics...
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New York Attorney General's JP Morgan Lawsuit: Too Little, Too Late
This pre-election stunt suit is made up of old evidence and could have been filed years ago.
