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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Targeting Solutions Rather Than Crises, A San Francisco Gathering Asks "What's Possible?"
A gathering of people from around the world at the first ever event known as PossibL, happening later this month in San Francisco, seeks to shed light less on the crises we face and more on the solutions to those crises.
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How America's Largest Worker Owned Co-Op Is Lifting People Out of Poverty
Cooperative Home Care Associates has 2,300 workers who enjoy good wages, regular hours and family health insurance.
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Interview: Should Mayors Rule the World?
Can we end inequality by giving cities more power?
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Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools [Infographic]
Where’s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers.
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"Cowboys and Indians" Camp Together Building Alliance Against Keystone XL Pipeline
At the Ponca Trail of Tears Spiritual Camp in northeastern Nebraska, tribal members and ranchers determined to prevent construction of the tar sands pipeline through their land are learning to understand each other as never before.
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Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy
New York City's new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda.
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Houston’s Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester.
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Welcome to Blockadia!
A vast but interwoven web of campaigns are building a unified front in Oklahoma and Texas, where people are standing up against the fossil fuel industry and demanding an end to the development of tar sands pipelines.
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Why Curbing the Climate Crisis Will Take More Than Summits and Divestment
Targeting the fossil fuel industry is essential, but divestment as the target for action raises the same question as global summitry does: Is it enough?
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How Wall Street is Burning Democracy
The finance, insurance and real estate industries spend approximately $1,331 a minute on influencing our leaders. See how the worst of the worst stack up.
