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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#Staygrounded Action In London Makes Airports New Focal Point for Social Justice
A frequent flyer busy on her cellphone steps over the bodies on the floor as she checks in at Heathrow Airport, part of a “die in” last week staged by Reclaim the Power, which also hosted a frequent flyer check-in for the 1%.
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Cracks in Capitalism, Part III: "The Divide" Shows Inequality On the Big Screen
Katharine Round’s new documentary, "The Divide," adds substantially to the debate around inequality as it explains in clear terms how our 35-year experiment in neoliberalism has failed spectacularly.
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Wealth Belongs To All Of Us – Not Just To The Rich
As a white male, everything I have is a gift of the system.
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Five Years Later, the Recession Lingers Only for the 99%
Only the 1% has prospered since the financial crisis five years ago.
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Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity
Last year, not one of the top 50 individual charitable gifts went to a social-service organization or charity that principally serves the poor and the dispossessed.
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America's Three-Tiered Justice System
Big shots are above the law, the government now admits, but a three-tiered justice system has Congress churning out new bills to keep the prison industry booming.
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Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed
The 1% has taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years using a variety of strategies to redistribute wealth to the top. Here is the effect of this funds transfer.
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Austerity: The 1%'s Global Battle Cry
The world economy is not in crisis because of debt. It's because too many have too little to buy what has been created.
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Tax Rates For America’s Wealthiest Fell In 2010
New data from the IRS shows that the effective tax rates for America’s top earners fell even lower in 2010.
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The One Percent: A Poem
One god, angry, vituperative, vengeful, ready to condemn, stoking Hell’s righteous fires against the chill of wrong belief and the threat of low return on investment.
