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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Pussy Riot Joins Madonna, American Rock Stars, Calling for Freedom on Brooklyn Stage
"It's time for the rest of the world to be as brave as Pussy Riot," – Madonna
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Glenn Greenwald, Fellow Snowden Reporters Expected To Win Top Journalism Award
Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill and Barton Gellman are up for the George Polk award.
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Xenophobia in San Francisco: Why Are Muslim Schoolgirls Still Getting Bullied?
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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More Than Half Million Americans Enter Movement to Stop Trans-Pacific Partnership
The swift, social media-fueled campaign has been embraced by 120 organizations.
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Where Risk and Resilience Meet: Elaine Enarson Talks Gender Disaster
'From Hurricane Andrew in Miami to the massive floods of the Red River in the Upper Midwest, I've been privileged to listen as women shared what they did in disasters and how they felt.'
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In Mass “Fusion Movement“ of the South, Nation Looks to Raleigh As Tea-Party Combatant
The organizer of a “moral march” on Raleigh, N.C., says he wants it to be a loud rebuke against Tea-Party extremism in state legislatures nationwide.
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Ukraine Resistance Withstands Ice and Violence In 11-Week-Long Occupation
An uneasy calm hangs this week over Kiev’s Maidan, where riot police and masked demonstrators engage in a 24-hour staring contest across ice bricks, burn barrels and scrap metal as the political impasse marks 11 weeks of occupation.
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Keystone XL Protests Ignite in 200 Cities, Monday (02/03/2014)
Responding to the State Department’s erroneous, industry-paid report issued Friday on the climate impacts of the tar sands pipeline, activists are mobilizing hundreds of direct actions and marches nationwide to demand an end to Keystone.
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Smelling Victory: Is Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Dead?
Protests today against the TPP in dozens of cities cap a 10-day blitz uniting masses of Americans concerned with the environment, GMO labeling and worker rights.