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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In Election Year of Anger, VotePact.Org Offers Cooperative Subversion
There’s something to be said for the radical conversational potential of reaching across the aisle and inviting political opponents to bust the system together.
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Third Party Politics: Why Social and Electoral Movements Must Work Together
Social movements and electoral movements, which are imperative for nonviolent social change, should work together.
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For Our Vote To Make a Difference, It's Time to Try New Tactics
The victory of Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant shows how grassroots efforts are creating an opening for independent political action by working people — even in the tightly controlled world of electoral politics and the two-party system.
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How to Build a Grassroots Power Base
If we want to move the country in a progressive direction, the politics of denunciation must work in sync with the politics of organizing—which must include solid electoral work.
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Elect Occupy Wall Street in 2014?
I agree with the OWS activists who say electoral politics isn't the solution. But kicking the worst offenders out of office and putting our people in is a hell of a start. The 2014 midterms could be our year.
