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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Richmond, California Mayor Occupies Wall Street
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is setting an example for how community activists can make big changes by running for local office independent of the two-party system and corporate campaign cash.
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In Latest Scandal at UT Austin, a Bake Sale Attacks Race
The University of Texas at Austin’s Young Conservatives of Texas group last month hosted an “Affirmative Action Bake Sale” where they charged customers prices based on their race.
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15,000 Mobilize with Mapuche Indians For Anti-Columbus Day March in Chile
Protesters battled police in the Chilean capital as activists called for a return of their ancestral lands and the right to self-determination.
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Rightwing Truckers to Clog D.C. Freeways to Protest "Unconstitutional" Congress
On October 11, anti-government truckers and tractor-trailer drivers plan to launch a coordinated "three lanes deep" assault, clogging the inner loop of the Washington D.C. beltway, adding populist muscle to the government shutdown.
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Message from Mexico to Occupy Wall Street: Stop the TPP!
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most anti-democratic international tool of dispossession and exploitation designed in human history, allowing multinational corporations’ rights to supersede the constitutional provisions of all countries and peoples’ rights.
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Reclaiming the Roadblock, UK Uncut Takes Direct Action Against Austerity
Complementing other British anti-austerity movements in recent years, UK Uncut has proved perhaps the most successful at mobilizing activists from across the country to challenge corporate evasion of taxes.
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What Might Occupy’s Nonviolent Militia Look Like?
Why do Americans equate the idea of an "army" or "militia" with weapons? A discussion is evolving about the future of creative nonviolent resistance and what an "Occupy Militia" might look like.
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3 Things to Know Ahead of the Global March Against Monsanto
Despite the funding with which it shapes public policy and tries to prevent GMO labeling, and its overall reckless corporate behavior, Monsanto is nothing compared to the power of the consumer at large.
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Seattle Social Justice Film Festival Brings New Voices to the Big Screen
This week in Seattle, the second Social Justice Film Festival draws a sharp focus to injustice and unfairness.
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Two Years On: Successes, Challenges and Next Steps for the Occupy Movement
With things getting only better for the rich and worse for the poor, it's not a question of if, but when, the next historic shift in the tectonic plates of global capitalism will take place.
