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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Thailand on Lockdown After Protesters Occupy Finance and Foreign Ministries
More than 150,000 demonstrators took park in weekend protests to unseat Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, leading to a public occupation of two ministry buildings.
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First Nation Clan Blocks Path of Northern Pipelines in British Columbia
As corporations attempt to drive the Pacific Trails and Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines through British Columbia wilderness, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet'suwet'en people are courageously occupying in a strategic place to defend their lands.
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Opposing U.S. Drone Strikes, Pakistani Protesters Block NATO Supply Route
Thousands of people protesting U.S. drone strikes on Saturday blocked a road in northwest Pakistan that is used to move NATO troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan.
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Swiss Voters Defeat Bill Seeking to Cap Executive Pay
Though voters rejected a proposal Sunday to limit top executives' salaries, anger over pay has tapped a nerve in Switzerland, where people are increasingly unhappy with rising wealth inequality.
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Paris Isn’t Burning — Not Yet
Today, France isn’t occupied — unless you count multinational corporations as occupiers. Instead, it's the racists, the Anti-Semites and the members of the National Front who are fanning the flames of popular discontent.
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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations Meet Protests in Salt Lake City
Outside the Grand America Hotel, the rains fell, the speakers rose, the marchers chanted. Inside, top trade negotiators from the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations discussed imports and exports, profits and products, prices and patents.
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Donald Sutherland: "I Want Hunger Games to Stir Up a Revolution"
The Hunger Games is a coded commentary on inequality, power and hope, and he wants it to stir revolt: a youth-led uprising against injustice to overturn the U.S. as we know it.
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World of Resistance (WOR) Report, Part 1: The Global Awakening
Institutional and imperial power structures have never been more globalized or concentrated in human history; yet, simultaneously, never have they been under more threat from an awakened humanity. Zbigniew Brzezinski says there's no going back.
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New Jersey Town To Rescue Foreclosed Homeowners Through Eminent Domain
On Saturday, Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith announced the township’s plan to “take” and revalue foreclosed homes at market rates for public benefit using the legal doctrine of “eminent domain” -- making it the second U.S. city to exercise the measure.
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Royal Troubles: Amid Austerity and Inequality, Ire Is Growing Over Britain's 1% Monarchy
Inheritances of vast wealth and power position the British royals and aristocrats within the global 1%. So why do protests for democracy and equality rarely draw attention to them, focusing anger instead merely on bankers, politicians and corporate fat cats?
