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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From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter: Where Does Radical Protest Go From Here?
New movements have had more material success than Occupy Wall Street, but the age-old challenge that Occupy put into stark relief remains: will they settle for reform when they came to have a revolution.
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The Yes Men Are Revolting – This Time It's Personal
The prankster activist duo are back at it again, now directing their comical creative theater at the climate crisis and the earth's worst offenders.
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Can Worker Cooperatives Alleviate Income Inequality?
The pay ratio between the highest- and lowest-paid worker-owners in cooperatives is between 3:1 and 5:1, compared with a ratio of roughly 600:1 in traditional corporations.
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How Fear Of Occupy Wall Street Undermined the Red Cross's Sandy Relief Effort
Red Cross responders say there was a ban on working with the widely praised Occupy Sandy relief group because it was seen as politically unpalatable.
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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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Rebuilding Hope, Rebuilding Homes: 18 Months After Superstorm Sandy
This week, organizational leaders and residents whose lives were upended by the storm shared their perspectives and talked about their successes, challenges and vision for the future.
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'The Next Revolution Will Be Rural'
Micah White, who helped envision Occupy Wall Street, is now a co-founder of the After Party, which seeks to create “mutual aid flash mobs” that improve communities from the grassroots up.
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Grand Theft Rockaway: Money Vs. Hospitals
One year after Hurricane Sandy hit, public healthcare in the Rockaways is in some ways even more dire than it was during the storm. Peninsula Hospital, one of only two remaining hospitals, was shut down in April 2012 and the last one, St.
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Two Years On: Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for the Occupy Movement
With things getting only better for the rich and worse for the poor, it's not a question of if, but when, the next historic shift in the tectonic plates of global capitalism will take place.
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Occupy Wall Street, Two Years On: We're Still the 99%
Two years ago, in scores of encampments across America, a new generation found its calling.