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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Climate and the Commons
To stop climate change, we have to stop neoliberal capitalism.
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Quebec Inches Closer to Martial Law
An “emergency law” to “restore order” in Quebec amounts to a declaration of war on the student movement as mass protests continue against proposed 80% increase in tuition costs.
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Gill Tract Arrests Expose University Elitism
On Earth Day—April 22, 2012—about 200 people, accompanied by children in strollers, dogs, rabbits, chickens, and carrying hundreds of pounds of compost and at least 10,000 seedlings entered a 14-acre piece of land containing the last Class I agricultural soil in the East Bay.
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Billionaire Debunks "Job Creator" Myth
A billionaire admits the truth: the rich are not job creators. The only thing that stimulates the economy is supply and demand. In other words: the consumer. You have more power in the broader economy than the wealthiest industrialist.
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Chicago Police Ignore Constitution, Abduct Activists
Millions of armed servicemembers did not die in foreign wars so that timid politicians could legislate away the basic freedoms they fought to protect.
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Chicago Dispatch: Vets Toss Medals of Honor, Call NATO Summit a Disgrace
“I'm doing this here, now, because our enemy is not overseas, our enemy is in the corporate boardrooms, right over there in those NATO conference rooms, right here at home,” said a veteran.
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Two Kinds of Wealth, Two Kinds of Debt
To abet market inequities as Congress has, to reward market criminality as Congress has, and then to suggest that eighty years of Social Security surpluses are the source of the nation’s debt and the economy’s ills as some in Congress do is spectacularly dishonest.
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Opinion: Blockupy Frankfurt Is a Glimmer of Hope Amid Crushing Austerity
Popular protests such as Blockupy Frankfurt offer an alternative to capitalism for those facing a life hunting through garbage cans.
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On the Eve of the NATO Summit, Is Phone Jamming Coming to Chicago?
Not only do the FBI and Secret Service have standing authority to jam cellphone signals, but they along with state and local authorities can also push for the shutdown of cell towers.
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How Green is My Occupy? Looking ahead to Rio+20
If you are an environmentalist -- the upcoming Rio+20 Conference on June 20 is a hot topic. If you are an occupier, helping these two movements merge may be your hot topic
