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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Occupy Is Everywhere
The return of encampments as a tactic is telling us something, if we’d care to listen.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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5 Years After Zuccotti Park, Occupy Movement Is Driving America's Political Change
The next time someone says the Occupy movement is dead, ask them this: “Do you really think serious activists for social and economic justice were going to spend the rest of their lives living in tents in parks?”
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Act Out! [78] - Terrorism, War, Oppression, Colonialism & Activism: from Attica to 9/11 to #NoDAPL
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001. Let's take a look at what these 15 years have brought us...
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Escalating the War on Low-Income Families
It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.
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Musical "Zuccotti Park" Brings Economic Justice to New York International Fringe Festival
The musical "Zuccotti Park" brings economic justice to the New York International Fringe Festival.
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Act Out! [71] - A Former Brutal Cop & a Young Black Visionary in the Fight for Justice
This week, a special extended episode featuring voices from what one might think are opposite sides of the front lines – a young black woman and a retired police captain.
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"Young People Are Losing Faith In Capitalism": An Interview with ROAR Magazine's Jerome Roos
Jerome Roos started ROAR Magazine just as the Arab Spring was getting underway, and today it has evolved into a global alternative news outlet covering social movements with a uniquely radical lens.
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The Afterbern: “He’s Not Moving A Party to the Left – He's Moving A Generation to the Left”
Without Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Fight for $15, the mobilization of teachers and nurses, immigrant movements, and many other struggles, there would never have been a Bernie Sanders campaign.
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5 Years On: Why the Occupations of 2011 Changed the World
The movements of the squares were a watershed moment that profoundly changed grassroots and institutional politics – they have enthused in equal measure as they have disappointed, both under-delivering and over-delivering on their promises.
