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.
American Civil Liberties Union
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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Texas's "Unlawful Purge" of Thousands of Voters
Officials are being accused of compiling a flawed list of voters that could see tens of thousands of naturalized citizens wrongly expunged from rolls.
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How Lenders Are Turning Low-Level Courts into Dickensian "Debt Collection" Mills
Collectors ranging from federal student lenders, to third-party debt buyers, to utility and ambulance services routinely wield the threat of arrest to intimidate people into paying up.
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How Prosecutors Turn A Protest Into a "Riot"
I joined hundreds of thousands of protesters at counterdemonstrations around Trump’s swearing-in. Little did I know I would be swept up into a legal nightmare that demonstrates how prosecutors intimidate and manipulate defendants into giving up their rights.
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Homeland Security Plans to Collect Immigrants’ Social Media Info
The rule, which would take effect Oct. 18, would allow the agency to collect information from US immigrants' Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.
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Since Trump's Election, 20 States Have Moved to Criminalize Dissent
It's being called the "biggest protest crackdown since the Civil Rights Era."
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Speak No Evil: Many Americans Don’t Know It, but Their Employers Can Censor Their Political Speech
"Corporate censorship is much more common than most people recognize... [as] employers use their financial power to control employees' free speech and political behavior."
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency and the FBI.
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Message From Minneapolis: The Time To Reinvest in Poor Communities Is Now
American taxpayers spend $126 billion a year to fund police departments nationwide – but in places like Minneapolis, black people are underprotected and overpoliced, and politicians can no longer ignore the surging wave of activism.
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Who’s Responsible For Poisoning Flint’s Water Supply?
The struggling Michigan city is reeling from a lead-poisoning crisis caused by bad state policies.
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Number of U.S. Police Officers Charged In Fatal Shootings Hits 10-Year High
Public outrage over the killing of black men by police in New York, Missouri and elsewhere have spurred prosecutions, and body cameras and bystanders' videos also helped bring cases – but still only a small percentage resulted in charges.
