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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Sunset Park Rent Strikers to Stage Sleep-In
On one of the hottest nights of the year, rent strikers and Occupy Sunset Park will gather for a vigil and sleep-in to protest a slumlord.
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How Corporate Politics Bought the Rio Earth Summit - and our Future
Big business and industry control the political process and policy decisions at every level. But what happens when what is politically feasible bears no relation to a livable future on planet Earth?
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How Debt Emerged as a Widespread Occupy Grievance
As Occupy Year One dawns, the battle for debt forgiveness has reached fever pitch.
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Japanese Activism Goes Nuclear
Saying no to nuclear power, Japanese demonstrators demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who chose to restart the country's nuclear industry despite the horrors of Fukushima.
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What Impunity Means
President Obama’s commissioning of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report promised hope, yet none of the identified perpetrators received meaningful sanctions, and no CEO was jailed.
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States Closing in on Citizens United
Americans across the political spectrum agree that corporations are not people. Now we must use our amendment power under the Constitution to defend our democracy.
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Who's Afraid of the French Revolution?
On Bastille Day, some parallels between the Occupy Movement and the French Revolution.
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Romney in the Hamptons: The View From Outside the Gates
Here's what the hoi polloi outside the GOP presidential candidate's fancy Hamptons fundraisers had to say.
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Protest the 1% at Bohemian Grove
Occupy groups from all over Northern California plan to protest the powerful 1% elites partying at the secretive Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California.
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Is Monsanto About to Gain Immunity From Federal Law?
A “Monsanto rider” quietly slipped into the 2013 Agricultural Appropriations bill would require the Secretary of Agriculture to grant a temporary permit for the planting or cultivation of a genetically engineered crop - even if a federal court has ordered the planting be halted until an Environmental Impact Statement is completed.
