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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Watching Fascism On the Rise, From Greece to America
Golden Dawn’s prominence is proof that Greece is on the slide to becoming the next Nazi Germany — and that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Americans should also be wary of our government’s slide toward fascism.
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Femi Kuti's Lyrical Politics and the Musical Uprising in Wisconsin
Solidarity singers in Madison haven’t missed a day of music since the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, when the movement for workers’ rights and against crony capitalism took the state by storm.
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Tens of Thousands of Greeks Retake the Streets In General Strike Over Job Cuts
Demonstrators poured into Athens' central Syntagma Square on Tuesday as unions, protesting controversial plans to slash 25,000 public sector jobs, brought the country to a standstill in a fourth general strike this year.
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Rushton: Poverty in Britain
In Britain, austerity is vastly increasing poverty while the rich are getting richer.
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Portland Residents Debate Austerity Cuts Ahead of Final City Budget
Along a stretch of sidewalk in front of Portland's City Hall, some 50 people stood braving the rain in the hours before the city's final public budget hearing last week, where heavy austerity cuts are expected to go through.
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"Fearless Summer" from the Grassroots: Get Ready for Action
When people stand up against the destructive extraction industries of big energy interests, we gain community support and sometimes we even win.
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60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda
Journalist Lesley Stahl's segment about the adoption of military counterinsurgency techniques by U.S. police forces failed to mention that Stahl sits on the board of the Peterson Foundation, which heavily favors U.S. police militarization.
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Thousands of Israelis March Against Austerity Measures
2,000 people marched in Tel Aviv against new finance minister's proposed tax rises and spending cuts.
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Local Fights Against Austerity are Growing Across the U.S.
A wave of local grassroots organizing proves the potential exists to galvanize a national movement against austerity.
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Golden Dawn Food Rally for "Greeks Only" Raises Tensions in Athens
A Hamas-style distribution campaign of food and clothes for the needy has topped the fascist party's outreach program – and increasingly added to its appeal.
