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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Resisting Foreclosure: Rising Up for a Dream Called Home
In her new book, Laura Gottesdiener shows how black Americans have historically been dispossessed of home, property and adequate work as a de facto economic policy.
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Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide
Thousands of fast food and retail workers are striking across the United States on Thursday to push for a $15 hourly wage.
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Stockholm Activist Collective, Strengthened After Firebombing
On November 29, 2008, a leftist Stockholm collective called Cyclopen was bombed and burnt to ashes. Now, after hundreds put in summers of labor and acted through consensus-based decisions, the new gleaming building is set to open.
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Farmers' Strike Paralyzes Colombia
Colombian farmworkers are marching to demand government subsidies and greater access to land.
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Striking "For Our Dignity," U.S. Fast Food Workers Prepare to Walk Off August 29
“How am I supposed to realize the American Dream when I don’t even make enough to buy food?" said 22-year-old Dunkin' Donuts employee Meghan Forde, as fast food workers geared up for Thursday's nationwide strike.
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Taking the Dream Home: August 28 Rallies Ignite Across North Carolina
Sweeping across more than a dozen North Carolina cities on Wednesday, Taking the Dream Home marks the latest evolution of the Moral Monday protests that saw more than 1,000 arrests this summer in the Tar Heel state.
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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 3
This third of a three-part series looks at the development of the commons, legal, free knowledge, senior citizen's revolution and neo-internationalist micro-utopias that have evolved out of the 15M movement in Spain.
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In Deference to Great Men: Aaron Sorkin vs. the Occupy Movement
Surely, the Occupy Movement had its flaws, but the decision to avoid allowing the Movement to be co-opted by Congress was one of the strengths of Occupy, not its fatal flaw as "The Newsroom's" Will McAvoy alleges.
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650,000 Demand Obama Bans Fracking on Public Lands
A coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations delivered to President Obama nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban fracking on public lands.
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Why Mass Marches Still Matter: 2013’s March on Washington
If it is possible to organize a demonstration of hundreds of thousands, it is possible to expand a movement’s influence.
