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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Manifesto for a Naïve Activism: We Only Have One Planet, But Lots of Banks
A mentally ill president can see out the windows of the Oval Office, out in streets, the 99% and the Black Lives and the Kayaktivists and the Pussy Power and the Dreamers and the Water Protectors at Standing Rock.
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Keystone XL Opponents Promise Trump a Mass Mobilization "On a Scale Never Seen"
Trump has "declared war on indigenous nations" – and now they're ready to fight back.
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Resistance Roadshow – #Earth2Trump Campaign Kicks Off Jan 2, 2017
The 16-city tour to "rally and empower defenders of civil rights and the environment" launches in Oakland and Seattle, and ends Jan. 20 on inauguration day in Washington, DC.
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Breaking Free: 12 Days of Protest Open a Summer of Environmental Discontent
Global international actions this month aimed at halting fossil fuel extraction have ranged from North America to Nigeria to New Zealand and the message throughout is clear: we must act urgently to end humanity’s reliance on coal, oil and gas.
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100% Renewables or Climate Chaos? The People Must Answer Now
Starting next week, a global wave of mass actions will target the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects.
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The Climate Hour Is Late – Time To Rapidly Break Free From Fossil Fuels
After many years of political system failure, we can rely only on a massive people power wave capable of making demands for fundamental and rapid system change.
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Three Times When the World Broke Open – and Two When It Might Again
Social change is seldom as incremental or predictable as many insiders suggest — by turning issues considered both unrealistic and politically inconvenient into matters that can no longer be ignored, they champion the impractical.
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The Climate Insurgency Has Begun – Get Ready to Break Free From Fossil Fuels
One in six Americans say they will personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse – that's about 40 million adults, and the fate of the earth may depend on them.
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Bernie Sanders Is A Candidate For, Not Of, Today’s Movements
Bernie's success thus far is a sign of what a sizable chunk of America is ready for, electorally speaking – democratic socialism – and it’s still hard to escape the feeling that he caught today’s social movements off guard.
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Positive Anxiety: The Takeaway from Paris
The climate summit – which got up off its knees, then to its feet and ended with hands raised and loud cheering – will go down in history as a turning point in the protracted, half-baked global efforts of the last two decades.
