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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Rebel Cities 11: As Newham Transforms London, Democratic Socialists Awaken
In Newham, East London, Rokhsana Fiaz took power in May with a radical manifesto to alleviate the council's housing crisis and increase citizen participation. She is following through, and change is afoot.
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Democrats, Unions Declare Victory As 'Right to Work' Loses By Wide Margin in Missouri
“In every corner of the state, voters rebuked the efforts of powerful, out-of-state corporate interests and dark money to control the future of Missouri’s economy.”
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Portland far-right rally: police charge counterprotesters with batons drawn
Police in riot gear use stun grenades and pepper spray on leftwing groups protesting against Patriot Prayer marchers.
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Intensifying Support for Corbynism As Tory Government Crumbles
The rally atmosphere in the small, rural north west town of Hayfield is testament to Britons' rising discontent with neoliberal policies as PM Theresa May's Tory alliance falters and a leftist Corbynism is in ascent.
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From Freedom Summer to Parkland: How Change Comes to America
The results of the Road for Change and other student movements burgeoning across the country this summer have yet to be seen – but November isn't far off.
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Rebel Cities 10: Rosario, Argentina, Abandons The Establishment
In Rosario, where the Future City Party seeks to "build the utopia," a new University of Doing prepares students not for managing a corporation or state job, but managing the commons.
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Environmental Threats, Lack of Water, Poor Job Opportunities and Declining Social Benefits Produce Massive Protests in Southern Iraq
Organizers threatened that if their demands for water, basic services, and jobs are not met, the demonstrations will continue and grow.
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Detention Operators Face Suits Over $1-a-Day Work Programs for Migrants
Private prison companies are accused of breaking laws by paying migrants $1 a day. Geo Group and CoreCivic say the work is voluntary.
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Occupy ICE Activists Attract Rival Counter-Protesters Armed with Guns
As Occupy ICE camps continue to spread across the US, some activists have warned that they have been subjected to intimidation by armed, Trump-supporting counter-protesters.
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Rebel Cities 9: Iceland's Slow-Burning Digital Democratic Revolution
Icelanders to their credit have twice peacefully ousted governments, they are world leaders in transparency laws and digital freedom, and they decided not to bail out its failed banks.