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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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Germany's Coal Problem: A Growing Question Mark At the UN Climate Summit
Many agree that Germany's continued mining of lignite coal – the dirtiest type there is – undermines its green image. This past week, the Greens in Germany abruptly dropped their commitment to stopping coal and reducing car emissions.
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COP23 Opens With New Global Leadership Emerging Against Climate Change
Fiji and other vulnerable island nations have set out the necessary steps to keep global the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees celsius. This includes going further and faster than the historic agreements made in Paris in 2015.
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A Constitutional Impasse: What's Next for Catalonia and Spain?
Within the Spanish constitution, the Catalonian referendum was not legal – but this doesn't mean it was illegitimate. Pro-independence parties won a majority in the last Catalan elections, supplying the mandate for an independence vote. So what happens now?
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Letter from Girona: The Day Spain Lost Catalonia
On Tuesday, Catalonia staged a general strike against last weekend's violence. The government is expected to issue a statement of unilateral independence if a Yes vote is confirmed.
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Spanish Attacks on Democracy Strengthen Case for Catalan Independence
Many of those organizing the referendum have been arrested and more detentions are expected before Sunday's crucial vote.
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Citizen Debt Audits are Challenging Big Finance in the U.K. and Beyond
For citizen debt audits, the only way to challenge the power of banks is to reveal their crimes – then build a public movement that mobilizes around the injustice, demanding the public money be spent in the public interest.
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Activists Demand Climate Refugees Be Recognized
A 2015 tidal surge caused the sea to flood across the islands of Kiribati, the small Pacific island nation chain of atolls that could be the first national homeland lost completely to climate change.
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Escaping Assad: A Syrian Kurd's Story
“The revolution began as a peaceful civilian movement for all Syrians, Kurds, Arabs, everyone," says Sami. "And I look at where we are now and it is so depressing. The revolution has been stolen.”
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Notting Dale Reveals Britain's Slide Back Toward Victorian Levels of Inequality
The area around Grenfell Tower has long been a frontline in the fight against racism, as communities have organized against their exploitation with some long-lasting success stories that can serve as lessons for today.
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As Calls Grow for Grenfell Justice, Will U.K. Government Be Held To Account?
The British establishment is ignoring calls for an open and inclusive investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire, which could demonstrate how government and for-profit contractors helped turn 120 homes into a 24-floor death trap.
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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.
