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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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Clearing the Air: A Green New Deal for Grenfell
Seeking justice for Grenfell residents enables us to ask bigger questions about ending environmental racism – and makes it possible to imagine communities and cities not consumed by the car.
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Rebel Cities 25: Barcelona En Comú Reclaims the City and Reimagines the World
Barcelona's visionary popular party stands at the forefront of a global effort to remake the city in the interest of citizens and neighborhoods – through popular assemblies responding to the will of the people.
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Rebel Cities 24: How Catalonia's CUP Party Is Helping Reclaim Towns, Cities and Nation
The muncipalist thread interwoven into the radical Catalan independence movement offers insight into how to challenge state power—a paramount concern for municipalists everywhere.
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Extinction Rebellion Must Evolve to Tackle Our Systemic Climate Crisis
To really tell the truth about climate change, the rebels in Extinction Rebellion need to call out climate criminals. Anything else is a whitewash.
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Rebel Cities 23: Japanese Food Co-op Seikatsu Offers Hope for a Starving Planet
The Seikatsu model of food supply provides a working solution toward the intensifying capitalist-driven global food crisis. It could be a model that others worldwide choose to follow.
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“Red Alert”: Time To Sue the Banks Underwriting Climate Disaster
Knowing who is underwriting climate change is one thing. Making them stop and repay the climate debt is another. With the 2019 report "Banking on Climate Change," we get one step closer.
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Petro-State Norway Signals Oil Game Is Up
Europe's largest oil producer is effectively admitting the oil game is over and promises to divest from the industry – but it wants to play to the final whistle. Can it have it both ways?
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Rebel Cities 22: Nationwide Protests Rock Vietnam's Authoritarian-Neoliberal Government
Widespread ongoing protests against the country's Special Economic Zones – through which Vietnam favors deregulated business with China – are shaking the stability of the government.
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Rebel Cities 21: In India, Can People Win 'Rights to the Megacity'?
"Rights to the City" are useful for challenging authorities and elites as they attempt to prescribe solutions for sprawling urban areas of poverty. As New Delhi and Mumbai expand, those rights are more important than ever.
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Rebel Cities 20: With Hip-Hop As Sound Track, Young Senegalese Say Enough Is Enough
The Y’en a Marre ("We Are Fed Up") movement, which traveled the country raising awareness about the need to vote, played a crucial role helping defeat Senegal's two-term president in 2012.
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By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
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.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
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.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
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.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
