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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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, the people of Anaheim continued their stand against a trigger-happy police force, Occupy activists got raided by the FBI, the NYPD was finally called out for its Occupy-related human rights abuses, and 13 years after he aggressively lobbied Congress to repeal Glass-Steagall, former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill said, “Just kidding!”
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From Vermont to Appalachia to Texas, Citizens Say No to Dirty Power
Ever seen a human oil spill? It's not a lot like the real thing, except in the ways that it is: black, silent and ominously stationary - because these bodies, like crude, aren't going anywhere.
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Southern California erupted, the Occupied Chicago Tribune won the battle to keep its name, The Tax Dodgers were honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and time is running out to prosecute the financial crimes of 2008.
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The Biggest Insider Trading Scandal Ever?
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi spoke to Democracy Now! on July 19, where he discussed the pattern of systemic corruption by 16 banks accused of rigging a key global interest rate used in contracts worth trillions of dollars.
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A New Middle-Class Squeeze
The ever-widening gap between rich and poor, by the numbers.
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The Careerists
The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They enforce the laws and the regulations. And they do not ask questions.
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Cronyism: The One Thing Occupy and the Tea Party Can Agree On
New research is trying to project where the core grievances of the Occupy and Tea Party movements intersect. Whether it's outrage targeted at big banks and corporations, or at the failure of government, scholars say one word joins the two: Cronyism.
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Let Jello Biafra SHOCK-YOU-PY You
SHOCK-YOU-PY! by Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School Of Medicine.
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The Revolution Equation
Politics is possibility. Politics is ideas, and ideas are dangerous. When the sum of the people's political expectations exceeds their economic expectations, they are ripe for revolt.
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Lawyers and Food Groups File Federal Brief Against Monsanto
A coalition of high-level U.S. lawyers and nonprofit organizations are battling Monsanto at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals level.
