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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Massive Leak and Bi-Partisan House Opposition Strike Double Blow to Trans-Pacific Partnership
Broad bi-partisan opposition announced this week shows that winning Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority for the corporate coup known as the TPP has little support in Congress. In fact, the letters may be the death knell for such legislation.
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Arctic 30 Protester: "My Little Girl Will Have Forgotten Who I Am In Seven Years"
A defiant letter and a series of poignant drawings from Britain's Phil Ball, a 42-year-old cameraman from Oxford now sitting in a jail cell in Murmansk, highlight the plight of the Arctic 30 in their eighth week of imprisonment in Russia.
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BREAKING: Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Exposed
The Intellectual Property Rights Chapter published Wednesday by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents.
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Occupy Wall Street Group Buys $15 Million of Americans' Debt — And Abolishes It
Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group last November, purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills -- mainly medical ones.
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The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
If the story of a human future is not green, there is no future. If we can restructure our world along new understandings of ecology and economics, there is a chance we can salvage something.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Violence Against Brazil Protesters Puts Spotlight on Education as a Constitutional Right
Rio de Janeiro's State Teachers Union gained wide support after 200 teachers were brutally removed from occupying Rio's town hall in October. The teachers have won concessions and are threatening further strikes if more demands aren't met.
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Armed Gun Advocates Intimidate Mothers Against Gun Violence In Texas
Nearly 40 armed men, women and children waited outside a Dallas restaurant to protest a membership meeting for the state chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
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Bill de Blasio: A Mayor for the New Economy
New York City's new mayor has laid out a radically inclusive economic agenda.
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50 Organizations Call For Ban on Armed Drones
The dozens of groups and over 75,000 individuals are calling for sanctions against nations that carry out drone attacks in violation of international law, and are demanding an immediate U.S. ban on the use or sale of weaponized drones.
