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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Meeting the Definition of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banks
The terror inflicted on Americans is real, and is documented by the facts to follow.
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If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start with Big Pharma
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis – so let's put a noose around them.
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Act Out! [147] - No Sanctuary: From Mothers to Mayors, Rules for Radicals & Under the Influence w/ Tarbell
This week on Act Out!, elected officials could be the next group of people rounded up and thrown in a cell. While that might sound appealing depending on the official, the reasoning behind it is nothing short of an authoritarian nightmare.
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This Former Hedge Fund Guy is a One-Man Nonprofit Investigating Some of America’s Shadiest Companies
A crack investigative reporter for his one-man nonprofit, the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation, Roddy Boyd broke the Valeant Pharmaceuticals story and exposed a high-profile hedge fund manager's ponzi scheme that led to his incarceration.
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How the Food and Drug Companies Ensure that We Get Sick and They Make Money
The new documentary "What the Health" shows how the lives and health of human beings are considered insignificant, and in many ways threatened, by the pursuit of profits in the meat and dairy and drug industries.
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Act Out! [121] - Medicare’s Awkward Birthday + What Resistance Looks Like Worldwide
Organizers are gear up for 52 events to celebrate Medicare's 52nd, and Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee talks about work as an activist, artist and filmmaker, how art is a catalyst for change, and what she's learned on the front lines.
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17 Ballot Initiatives to Watch if You Care About Inequality
Voters in many states today will have the opportunity to weigh in on a wide variety of inequality-related issues, from taxing the wealthy to price-gouging on drugs.
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Pharma Fight in California: The Next Phase in Bernie’s Revolution Has Already Begun
Proposition 61 could be a watershed moment in American health care, reforming drug-purchasing and stopping price-gouging by Big Pharma.
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Act Out! [84] - The One Thing That Can Stop Climate Devastation and Inside the Sick Care System
This week, climate change might not be a thing on the presidential stage, but it's definitely a thing outside our sick mirage democracy.
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Killing Us Softly: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
“Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient will skip acquiring an EpiPen. And someday they will need it in a life-threatening situation, and they won’t have it, and they will die.”
