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.
Voting Rights Act
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"Journey for Justice" From Selma to DC, Ends With Demand to Restore the Voting Rights Act
Clad in yellow shirts, hundreds of people streamed across the Arlington Memorial Bridge on September 15 and ended their nearly 1,000-mile trip at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Triumph Of Courage: Bree Newsome Takes Down the Confederate Flag In Charleston
I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continues against black people globally in 2015.
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Tens of Thousands March on Selma As Attorney General Declares Voting Rights Act "Under Siege"
Speaking Sunday in Selma, AG Eric Holder said hard-won protections for African Americans are under threat – and that the Civil Rights Movement's work is not done as long as racial barriers remain at U.S. voting booths.
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Reverend William Barber: Leader of the Biggest Social Movement the Media Won't Talk About
"They’re not attacking us because we’re weak – they’re attacking us because we can fulfill the hope of Dr. King and form that demographic bloc that can shift the politics in the South."
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Extremists On the Bench: Five Years After Citizens United, Our Rogue Supreme Court
Five "unelected, unaccountable kings in black robes" are systematically stripping Constitutional rights from real, live human beings and giving those rights to corporations and a very small group of plutocrats.
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Jim Crow Returns: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened By Electoral Purge
This in-depth investigation reveals how election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, launched a program that threatens a massive purge of millions of voters from the rolls.
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Federal Court Strikes Down Republican-Backed Voter ID Law In North Carolina
Ruling that "the right to vote is fundamental," a N.C. appeals court reinstated the right to register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day, and to vote outside one's home precinct.
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North Carolina Protesters Call to End the Worst Voting Law Since Jim Crow
Activists with the Moral Monday movement rallied outside a packed courthouse in Winston-Salem to demand voting rights for all.
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Massive “Moral March” in North Carolina Puts Tea/Repubs on Notice Setting Tone for 2014
The 80,000-person turnout last Saturday in Raleigh was an indicator of widespread outrage at a state legislature whose backward, rightwing agenda raised taxes for 95% of North Carolinians while lowering them for the wealthiest 5%.
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Protesters March in Raleigh Igniting 2014 Moral Monday Movement
The Moral Monday protests transformed North Carolina politics in 2013, building a multiracial, multi-issue movement centered around social justice such as the South hadn’t seen since the 1960s.
