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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Occupy 2.0: Building a New Reality
I was never among those who thought that the occupation of public sites was what a serious revolutionary movement should look like. But now that we have been pushed off the streets, we have an opportunity.
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Kids vs. Global Warming: The Lawsuit
On Friday, a U.S. District Court will hear a motion to dismiss a climate change lawsuit brought by teenagers from across America who are demanding immediate policy action to slow global warming and preserve theirs and future generations.
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In Court, Twitter Sides with Occupy
Twitter has moved to quash a court order issued by the Manhattan district attorney that would require it to hand over the tweets of a writer and Occupy Wall Street protester arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last October.
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Amid Outcry, a Mega-Banker Gets His Degree
Retired Citigroup CEO Sanford Weill will receive an honorary doctorate from Sonoma State University in Northern California, on May 12. Some students, faculty and staff are outraged.
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Blockupy Frankfurt Banned
Blockupy protests planned for the European Days of Action, targeting the European Union's political and economic crisis, have been banned by the German government.
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Profiles: CSU Hunger Strikers Speak
Last Friday, after three days leading a hunger strike against student debt, a small group from Students for Quality Education (SQE) met with California State University Chancellor Charles Reed, Christine Helwick, Esq., and systemwide police chief Nate Johnson at CSU headquarters in Long Beach.
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Opinion: The Need For Free Expression
If the freedom to question and criticize is suppressed, and journalists and artists of all disciplines are made to conform to an ideology that demands a uniformity of thought punctuated by intimidation and accented by fear, where then will we turn?
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Why Occupy Can't - and Shouldn't - Become the Progressive Tea Party
The Occupy movement would derelict of duty if we focused on the electoral at the expense of putting pressure on the system as a whole. The entirety of civic life can not be reduced to a get out the vote campaign.
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The Gill Tract's Only Hope is Occupation
This occupation is our last chance to effectively communicate with U.C. Berkeley about the future of this land.
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T. Boone Pickens: "The Biggest Deterrant to an Energy Plan in America is Koch Industries"
The second-largest private company in the United States, Koch Industries has spent at least $5 million in lobbying in each of the past four years—much of it for dirty fuels and against clean energy.
