The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Advocacy & Reforms
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The People's Test On Climate: Upsetting "Business As Usual" To Save Ourselves and Earth
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap.
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Massachusetts Home Care Workers Win $15/Hour Starting Wage – First In Nation
Tears of joy streaked the faces of cheering home care workers assembled in their Dorchester union hall last week as a decades-long struggle for recognition and a living wage culminated in a historic moment of celebration.
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Justice: same-sex marriage legal throughout the entire United States
bout time! Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States
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Obamacare Upheld By U.S. Supreme Court – Now What About America's 35 Million Uninsured?
“What the United States should do is join every other major nation and recognize that healthcare is a right of citizenship,” said presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who advocates a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
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Six Lessons for the U.S. from Spain’s Democratic Revolution
I traveled to Barcelona and Madrid last month to witness the historic elections firsthand, and to learn from Spain’s independent social movements – and what I saw was a whole new way of doing politics.
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Here's How Fast Politicians Are Now Fleeing From the Confederate Flag
Who will be next?
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Post-Capitalist Solutions: How Worker-Owned Tech Co-ops Are Boosting the Solidarity Economy
Worker ownership is about alienation versus empowerment. For human beings to be able to be their full selves, they need to have a say in their own affairs.
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Weeding Money From Politics, Maine Leads the Way On "Clean Elections" Governance
Maine, whose referendum on a Clean Elections law can ensure the state isn't represented by shady special interests, provides a model for how states can push back against big money in elections.
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Why Greece Is On the Brink Of Putting Life Before Debt
Greece is the target of a violent, illegal, and immoral mission aimed exclusively at shifting private debt onto the public sector.
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Justice for All: Seattle's Kshama Sawant, Leader in Fight for $15, Talks About Movement's Next Steps
"All [working] people are latent activists. But to make them into activists they need to feel something deep in their hearts – in their gut. At the end of the day it is the tangible struggles that masses of people come out to fight."
