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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A Flotilla For Climate Action Sails the Hudson Ahead of Mass New York Protests
SeaChange: We All Live Downstream is a two-week journey by boat that's raising awareness and generating community activism around climate issues before people hit the streets in Manhattan.
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What Piketty Forgot: The Ecological Inequality That Threatens Us With Extinction
The crisis of capitalism isn't just about the gap between rich and poor – it's about the gap between what’s demanded by our planet and what’s demanded by our economy.
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Massachusetts D.A. Cites Climate Urgency Issuing Zero Jailtime for Lobster Boat Blockade Activists
In exonerating two climate activists, Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter said climate change was "one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced," and he found political leadership on the issue "lacking."
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People, Americans: Don’t Look to Government to Solve the Climate Crisis
Solutions exist to mitigate climate change and build systems that allow us to adapt to its harshest impacts – but the answers won’t be coming from above.
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Lobster Boat Blockade: Two Activists Stand Trial After Helping Close Down a Coal Plant
Environmental direct action will get a big legal test in Massachusetts next week when two men who temporarily blocked 40,000 tons of coal from reaching New England's largest coal-fired power plant stand trial.
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Even As Fracking Cash Pours In, North Dakota's Universities Crumble
The state is struggling to finance deteriorating public schools even as it experiences the biggest energy boom in its history.
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Climate Alarm Is Ringing – And Until Now the United Nations Has Failed To Act
Tackling the influence of Big Industry and financiers over the UN is now the prime focus.
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Will New York Protests At U.N. Be the Last Gasp for Climate Change Liberals?
Resistance will come from those willing to breach police barricades. Resistance will mean jail time and direct confrontation. Resistance will mean physically disrupting the corporate machinery.
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U.S. Energy Commission Sneaks Permit to Canada's Enbridge for Tar Sands-by-Rail Facility
The announcement came days after the State Department gave Enbridge a controversial permit to transport 350,000 barrels of tar sands per day across the U.S.-Canada border without public hearings or environmental review.
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Brazil’s “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest” Faces Death Threats
Davi Kopenawa, the leader of the Yanomami people in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, who is internationally renowned for his struggle against encroachment on indigenous land by landowners and illegal miners, is now fighting a new battle – this time against
