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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Can Non-Wall Street Democrats Present a Real Plan To Empower Workers?
Abandoned for decades by a party eager to cozy up to Wall Street and advance a neoliberal economic agenda, unions are once again being lauded by top Democratic Party leaders. But what's behind the warm embrace?
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Why Bernie Sanders Is the Only Populist Candidate for President
Whether or not this opponent of the billionaire class, corporate greed, Wall Street and environmental degradation – and this champion of working people, the unemployed, retirees, and student debtors – is our next president will be entirely up to us.
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Unequal States of America: Trillions in New Wealth, Millions of Children in Poverty
America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion – and in approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.
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Mind the Wealth Gap: Five Reasons San Francisco Needs to Use Public Lands for Public Benefit
The angst that is swelling throughout San Francisco and pushing outward to other Bay Area cities is not because people are resisting change – the angst is over the largest growing inequality gap in the country.
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From Universities to Churches to Non-Profits, Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money
Our democracy is directly threatened when the rich buy off politicians – but no less dangerous is the quieter, more insidious buy-off of institutions democracy depends on to research, investigate, expose and mobilize action against big money.
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U.S. Incomes Fell Last Year - Except for the Rich, Of Course
In fresh data that adds fire to a growing debate over income inequality, the Labor Department says Americans on average saw income decline for the second straight year in the 12 months to June 2014.
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The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
The emergence of these two groups is relatively new – and both challenge the core American assumptions that people are paid what they’re worth and that work is justly rewarded
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A Fight for Union Rights Hits Major Hotel Chains In San Francisco
Unionized hotel workers from across the city are demanding the Chesapeake Lodging Trust – which owns Le Meridien and Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf – allow workers to choose whether or not they want to unionize.
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If We Want Less Racism, We Need More Economic Justice
The Justice Department report on Ferguson demonstrates how economic hardship and racial tension feed off each other.
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Capitalism is Just a Story and Other Dangerous Thoughts, Part I
We need more options, not more uniformity; more deep thinking, not more rote acceptance; more opposition, not more repetition of the cold dry lie that there is no alternative.
