Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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The U.S. Power Elite Requires Student Debt to Sustain Itself
The student debt system serves the dual purpose of making higher education available only for those who come from wealthy families or those willing to take on a lifetime of debt, along with crushing younger generations’ will to rebel.
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The Threat of Republican Fascism, Part III: Why Grassroots Direct Action Is Needed Now
If we seek to prevent large-scale violence against a unified fascist government, it’s important to make it impossible for fascists to unify.
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Green New Deal XVII: Climate Litigation Is One Track To a Just Green Future
Worldwide climate litigation is a surging movement taking high polluting corporations, complicit nation-states or other climate criminals to court—and increasingly winning.
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Reckoning with Britain’s Cost-of-Living Crisis: Causes and Solutions
Having endured years of austerity, real-wage cuts, a crippling pandemic, and now soaring costs to energy prices and other living essentials, financially struggling families require immediate state support to help get through the cost-of-living crisis.
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How India’s Farmers Achieved Victory After a Yearlong Protest
Leaving their farms and land earlier this year to brave the cold and live on the streets of Delhi, India’s farmers challenged the might of a government bent on reducing their protections – and won the fight.
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Calls for UK to Tax Wealth, Not Work, Gather Momentum
A hike in National Insurance Contributions, a fundamental component of the UK welfare state, would hit lowest-paid people the hardest.
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Green New Deal XIII: From Kansas City to Estonia, Free Public Transport Is the Future
To reverse the ongoing climate catastrophe we must rethink transit, making it clean – and free to use – for everyone.
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Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think
The movement itself has mostly disappeared. But 10 years later, its legacy is everywhere.
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10 years later, Occupy lives on in society and politics
Yes, the tents and occupations are long gone. Yes, capitalism is still the dominant ideology. And yes, banks and multinational corporations still run our government. But when following the timeline, the impression Occupy Wall Street left on American politics, society, and how we talk about capitalism is undeniable.
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The U.S. Can Go Big on Infrastructure Spending If It Drops Its Fear of Deficits
Should Biden wish to be remembered as the next iteration of FDR, he’ll need to reject old ways of thinking about spending and embrace Modern Monetary Theory, putting forth a plan that’s just as, if not more ambitious than, the original New Deal.
