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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Moscow: Occupied
As far as the Twittersphere is concerned, Occupy has come to Moscow. But one thing is for certain - this isn't Occupy as we know it.
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The 99 Percent Wakes Up
Inequality isn’t only plaguing America—the Arab Spring flowered because international capitalism is broken. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the world is finally rising up and demanding a democracy where people, not dollars, matter.
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Un-Friezing Art for the 1%
Calling our action “Un-Frieze Culture,” Occupy Museums staged a Free Art for Fair Exchange to propose a new path, where contemporary culture can be in greater harmony with values of justice and universal respect.
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Facing Student Debt? Occupy Your Graduation
Tens of thousands of students across the nation will be occupying graduation by taping the dollar sign of their incurred debt to caps and gowns.
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Europeans to Rise Up May 12
We are united in our demands: the welfare of the 99% must be respected.
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Tar Sands Production In America Is Closer Than You Think
Tar sands in Utah, like in Canada, contain a form of petroleum called bitumen that can be refined into gasoline. But the process is costly, energy-intensive, and on a life-cycle basis releases far more global warming pollutants than conventional oil refining operations.
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Our Government, the Keyboard Cops
If CISPA enters into U.S. law alongside the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act – which gives the government the power to detain any American for anything forever – fundamental civil liberties will be threatened in a way that no democracy can tolerate.
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Four Poems for an Occupy Spring
Following the dispossessed to Zuccotti / I never looked up at what blocked the sun / from warming the rebel camp, / The shadow of a country / that lost its spine, Consumed by smoke and zealotry.
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Fighting Austerity, Reclaiming our City
Between May 10 and May 15, New Yorkers — in solidarity with global calls to action from around the world — will carry out Another City is Possible, Another World is Possible, a week of actions connecting the city budget to austerity measures around the world, all culminating on May 15 at 6 p.m. in a mass convergence in Times Square.
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Rocking Chicago: Your Guide to the NATO Counter-Summit
Occupy Chicago and numerous community groups have lined up a week of actions to confront austerity and militarism.
