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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British City of Bristol Launches its Own Currency
Bristol is launching its own currency, the Bristol Pound, with hundreds of businesses already signed up to use the currency designed to keep local wealth in local pockets.
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Opposition to Fracking Mounts in Europe
The first coordinated international day of action against fracking on September 22—Global Frackdown—will unite activists on five continents through more than 100 events to call for a ban on hydraulic fracturing in their communities.
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Privatization Be Damned!
The futility of diverting public funds into the hands of profitseekers has been well-documented. Here are a few of the gathering curses of privatization.
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Putting Sorkin’s Occupy Wall Street Critique in a Larger Historical Context
In “Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled,” Andrew Ross Sorkin leaped into the ongoing frenzy, which has hopefully fizzled, of proclaiming the death of Occupy as thousands of people are taking to the streets.
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Students Flock to Hollywood to Burn Their Student Loan Bills
College students from across Los Angeles will be turning out Saturday on Hollywood Boulevard to light their student loan bills on fire — a proclamation of freedom from an unfair debt system that has already topped $1 trillion nationwide.
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Voting For Our Future — While We Still Can
Ballot initiatives in five key states are helping citizens directly confront austerity economics while building national momentum behind policies to jumpstart the economy and protect our democracy.
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Banks to Blame for 800,000 Preventable Foreclosures
The Obama administration’s program to tackle the housing crisis and help homeowners who were facing foreclosure fell far short of its goals — and a recent report blames the nation's biggest banks for the failure.
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Lockdown! Activists Paralyze Keystone XL Machinery in Texas
Activists with the Tar Sands Blockade on Wednesday morning halted construction — again — on the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas, furthering their campaign of civil disobedience and direct actions against the oil transport project.
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Forging a People's Wall
If the police are adapting their arrest tactics, we should adapt our own tactics to protect innocent people from unlawful arrest, imprisonment, and costly court dates and attorney fees.
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Occupy Your Victories
Occupy's accomplished a great deal in a year.
