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.
Organized Resistance
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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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Radicals and the 99%: Building the Core and the Mass Movement
If we are to effectively challenge the most powerful institutions in the world, we will need the active involvement of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people—folks who are willing to give something.
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How Do You Run Goldman Sachs Out of Town?
Oakland's city council is trying.
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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland
The Portland government's narrowly constructed and carefully controlled austerity narrative, meant to divide and weaken the city
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Hawaiians Against Monsanto: The Struggle to Reclaim Paradise
Hawaii is the world’s ground zero for chemical testing and food engineering, with companies like Monsanto executing thousands of open-field-test experiments of pesticide-resistant crops over the last 20 years.
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The Fossil Fuel Resistance: A New Movement is Emerging
As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging — fiercely, loudly and right next door.
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Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
The book Harvesting Justice isn’t just a look at the world’s most exciting food justice groups—it’s also a knockout organizing tool.
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Injecting Democracy Into Public Spending
Through a civic reform called participatory budgeting, thousands of residents in New York, Chicago and the Bay Area will be deciding over the next month how nearly $20 million of tax dollars are allocated to their cities.
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In Districts With Widest Gender Wage Gaps, Congressmen Oppose Fair Pay Laws
Four out of five of the U.S. congressional districts with the widest gender-based wage gaps are represented by congressmen who oppose equal pay laws.
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A Tax Day Plan for Fighting the Republic
Outsized chunks of our taxes fund the military, rising healthcare costs and interest on the federal debt while relatively tiny amounts go to education, science, alternative energy, and the environment.
