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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How the Media is (Still) Failing Occupy
The post-camp Occupy Movement is proving a bit too cerebral for a media machine that prefers shiny objects and flashing lights to substance.
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Purchasing the Presidency: How Citizens United Has Overwhelmed 2012 Spending
A report released Monday shows that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling on Citizens United is accountable for 78% of this year's election spending as corporations angle to buy the presidency.
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The Riskiest Banks are Still Those We Bailed Out
Bailed-out banks continued to be riskier than non-bailed out banks, even after they received taxpayer dollars during the financial crisis of 2008.
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Study Busts Myth Corporations Use to Justify Skyrocketing CEO Pay
CEO pay has increased 725 percent over three decades while worker pay has essentially remained flat.
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A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal
Just as the baseball season now stretches nearly into November, and the National Football League keeps adding games, so the summer season is in danger of extending on both ends, a kind of megalomaniac power grab fueled by the carbon pouring into the atmosphere.
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¡Basta! Revolution Becomes Reality in Spain
On Saturday, Spaniards swarmed governmental and financial buildings across Madrid, a preview for this Tuesday, when thousands more are expected to surround the Spanish Congress and demand that the government, lawmakers and king resign.
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Poem: The Beating Heart Everywhere
One year since we rose up and linked hands and listened to one another.
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How Occupy Birthed a Rhizome
Anniversaries, like Monday’s one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, bring about pangs of nostalgia as we remember what was and what we could have been.
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Cops Might Finally Need a Warrant to Read Your Gmail
Because they apparently didn't before.
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Monsanto's Herbicide-Laden Corn Causes Cancer in Rats
A new GMO study concludes that rats fed a lifelong diet of Roundup-containing genetically modified corn, engineered by Monsanto, developed mass tumors, liver and kidney damage that killed more than half of them prematurely.
