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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How Podemos Works: The Party Born from Spain's Indignados Holds Great Lessons for U.S.
Since it's the takeover of our democratic process by big money that makes most Americans angry, Podemos is a story from which Americans could take heart.
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?
Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?
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Spaniards Escalate Protests Against New Gag Law Outlawing Public Dissent
The day before the new law went into effect last week, thousands of people protested in over 30 Spanish cities, saying the gag rule will severely restrict democratic freedoms of speech and peaceful assembly.
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Anti-Poverty Activist Becomes Barcelona Mayor As Indignados Surge to Power
Spain’s 15-M Movement made the move from city squares to the halls of power on Sunday in municipal and regional elections that saw the ruling People’s party battered at the ballot box.
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Spain's Podemos Leader: "Politics Is About Strength, It Is Not About Wishes Or What We Say In Assemblies"
Pablo Iglesias, who heads the country's rising populist party that emerged from the 15-M Movement, talks about what it takes to build mass movements.
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Podemos Party, Grown From 15-M Movement, Now Leads Spanish Polls
The surge in popularity of the populist Podemos party – which translates as "We Can" – represents the first serious threat to the country’s two-party system since the death of dictator Franco
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New Rights, New System: Spanish Social Movement Releases "A Charter for Democracy"
A democracy created among all people is possible – a democracy not reduced to merely voting, but founded on participation, citizen control and equal rights.
