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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The Prison State of America
Prisons are prototypes for the future – where a million prisoners who currently work for corporations and government industries are models for what the corporate state expects us all to become
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Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Is Making Inroads Across America
From defending homeowners against unlawful foreclosure to opposing skyrocketing student debt and bolstering the low wage workers movement, seeds planted by Occupy continue to spread and grow.
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Inmates Strike in Alabama – Declare Prison Is “Running a Slave Empire”
Inmates will refuse work, calling for education, rehabilitation and an end to overcrowding, life sentences without parole – and “the free labor system.”
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The Heir, the Judge and the Homeless Mom: America's Prison Bias For the 1%
I hate to shatter anyone's illusions, but inequality defines our criminal justice system just as it defines our society.
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How Ex-Cons Teaching "Emotional Literacy" Are Helping Reduce Youth Violence
Marvin Stancil and a cadre of once-incarcerated, formerly gang-affiliated lecturers are leading Project AWARE, a program public school educators believe may revolutionize the way schools deal with students who exhibit violent behavior.
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The August 24 March on Washington: Why We Need a New Civil Rights and Labor Movement
Even with the greatest employment crisis since the 1930s and an unemployment rate for blacks that remains double that of whites, there is no talk of legislation for a federal jobs program to be paid for by taxing the rich.
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California Prison Hunger Strike Is A Call for Justice
On July 8, nearly 30,000 prisoners across the state began a third hunger strike, which may end up being the largest and longest in California's history.
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10 Ways America Is Stepping Into a Police State
In the past decade the United States has moved toward a police state in small but key ways.