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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Act Out! [164] - Military Industrial Preschools, Corporate Slapps & Three Sisters vs. A Pipeline
The war machine is now branching out – into early childhood education. Meanwhile, Coke's bogus greenwashing, and how corporations use courts to SLAPP down their opponents.
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Act Out! [150] - Expensive Bombs & Toilet Paper + the Gun Talk We’re Not Having, But Need To
Taxes are right around the corner so we felt it an apt time to talk about some of the big winners on tax day. Spoiler alert: It's not you and me.
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Act Out! [141] - Our Flexible Borders, Your Rights & Drones + Public Broadband & The Internet’s Future
This week on Act Out! we're talking borders and barriers.
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Leaked Emails Reveal Close Ties Between Heritage Foundation and Lockheed Martin
Defense contractors have historically played an outsized role shaping the national security debate through think tank funding – as was the case in the large donations Lockheed Martin gave Heritage, which lobbied intensely for its F-22 fighter jets.
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America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America
What makes the Pentagon's Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, a child-soldier recruiting program, so striking is the way it is carried out in plain sight in hundreds and hundreds of private, military, and public high schools across the U.S.
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Spying on "Terrorists Abroad," Suppressing Dissent at Home: When We Become the Hunted
If you're wondering why the ongoing revelations about the development and use of a massive public and private surveillance complex should be of concern to you, read this interview.
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The Top 10 American Corporations Profiting From Egypt's Military
For decades, Egypt has been one of the largest recipients of US foreign military aid, receiving everything from F-16s to teargas grenades. So who are the companies reaping the benefits?
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Revealed: How Walmart, Exxon and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
Seven weeks into the 113th Congress, as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul, powerful corporate lobbyists in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute scored premium access to politicians.
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DHS to Double U.S. Drone Fleet
The Department of Homeland Security wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones used to fly surveillance missions inside the United States, despite critical warnings that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to U.S. citizens.
