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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Our Legacy of Discrimination – And Why the Constitution Must Guarantee The Right to Vote
Many people are surprised to learn that the U.S. Constitution contains no affirmative right to vote. Yet voting seems to most people to be the most obvious, important vehicle they have.
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Tear Gas and Smoke Bombs Cloud Kiev As Violent Ukraine Protests Continue
The mainly peaceful protests that have paralyzed the city for two months erupted spectacularly into violence on Sunday evening, with pitched battles between riot police and protesters.
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How Occupy the S.E.C. has Impacted the Volcker Rule, Fueling Insitutional Support
In terms of historical comparisons, Occupy the S.E.C. reminds me of various elements of populism that the United States experienced at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
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Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Document Reveals Failed Enforcement of Environmental Protections
The once seemingly invincible largest trade bill in history, covering 40% of the world’s economy, looks very much like it can be defeated. Let's put a stake in it.
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Land Conflicts in Argentina: From Resistance to Systemic Transformation
Six corporations control 90 percent of soy production and its derivatives, making record profits - but the environmental costs of production are socialized.
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Could Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises Be Our Economic Solution?
The centuries-old idea of workers' self-directed enterprises has been revived, and the result is a new vision of an alternative to capitalism that could help to mobilize a new left.
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Harvard's Lawrence Lessig Embarks on 185-Mile Trek to Battle Money in Politics
Dubbing his march "the New Hampshire rebellion," Lessig set out January 11 – the first anniversary of the suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz – for a 2-week walk to highlight the role of corporate money in elections.
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Humboldt Exclusive: As Pot Money Grows, the River Runs Dry
Growing weed in Northern California isn't what it used to be. Today's use of chemicals, cultivation on industrial-sized scale and the overuse of scarce water resources means that despite pot's quasi-legalization, growers may need to rethink.
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Bay Area Protests Underway to Stop WesPac-Pittsburg Oil Mega-Terminal
Demonstrators at Pittsburg, Calif., City Hall said that plans to store highly volatile crude oil imported from the Bakken fields of North Dakota – and even the Alberta tar sands – were unacceptable.
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Thousands of New Yorkers Rally Against Fracking at Gov. Cuomo’s State of State Address
Protesters representing more than 100 organizations highlighted the environmental and health dangers fracking would pose to the state, calling for a ban as the only way to protect New York’s water and the health of residents.
