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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'We Have A Duty to Act': Hundreds Ready To Go To Jail Over Climate Crisis
A group of concerned citizens calling themselves Extinction Rebellion is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience this month to force action on climate change.
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We Are Living Through A Golden Age of Protest
We are seeing a level of organizing with little precedent – but it’s time for stronger forms of demonstration, such as sit-ins and street blockades.
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U.S. Government Demands Details On All Visitors to Anti-Trump Protest Site
Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional "fishing expedition."
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It May Only Take 3.5% of the Population to Topple a Dictator – with Civil Resistance
The United States has a rich history with effective uses of nonviolent resistance. It’s time to become familiar with it.
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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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Act Out! [64] — Forgotten Stories of Poisoned Water, Greedy Monsters & A Global Race to the Bottom
Some of the biggest issues facing our country are forgotten once the cameras switch off, but our ADD news cycle only makes us more vulnerable to repeat disasters like the Flint water crisis.
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Breaking Free By Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana
My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. I’ve found freedom in facing my fears and dispensing with false choices.
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Act Out! [62] - How to Fight the World's Dirtiest Energy, Corporate Coups & How the East Was Lost
This week on Act Out!, Break Free from fossil fuels, rebel against the fracking infrastructure, and glean some inspiration from our European anti-corporate coup comrades.
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Act Out! [61] - How to Erase the Border, Moms 4 Peace & A Miami Model’s Police State
This week, a wall is a wall until it's — the sky? Ana Teresa Fernandez shows us how we might view things differently, simply through the application of color.
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What’s Next for Democracy Spring?
With more than 1,300 people arrested on the steps of the Capitol earlier this month, the Democracy Spring campaign pulled off one of the largest acts of civil disobedience this century.
