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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What Progressives Can Learn From Stacey Abrams
A brighter political future depends upon turning out large numbers of voters of color.
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Rebel Cities 4: In Warsaw, "Rights to the City" Means Clean Air and Affordable Homes
The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven in Warsaw by local issues like air pollution and unaffordable rents.
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North Carolina Teachers Strike, Demanding Higher Pay and Better Funding
Teachers from 20 school districts across the state held a strike that affected around 700,000 students, as teachers demanded an increase in per-pupil funding to the national average and raises in teacher pay.
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With March on Harrisburg, the "Blue Wave" Gathers Force in Pennsylvania
We aren’t meant to believe that what we do, or what we march for, or who we elect, on the local level, has any real larger-scale consequences. March on Harrisburg is attempting to change that.
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'Time for a Moral Confrontation': Poor People's Campaign Launches With Local Rallies Nationwide
The campaign, with an emphasis on voter mobilization and civil disobedience, will include 40 days of demonstrations culminating in a massive protest on June 23 in Washington, D.C.
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Mother's Day Reality: More Employed Single Mothers Are Poor in Today's America
More than a quarter of single mothers living without partners or parents are now in poverty, and almost twice as many women as men are likely to live in poverty at some point.
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Rebel Cities 3: Zapatistas Are Still Trailblazing Worlds Beyond Neoliberalism
Everything changed on New Year's Day 1994, when Zapatistas took autonomous control of their land in Chiapas, southern Mexico. In the 24 years since, they have exported their organizing model worldwide.
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8 Lessons for Today’s Youth-Led Movements From a Decade of Youth Climate Organizing
Like all large movements, youth climate activism has had its successes and setbacks, its enormously inspiring moments and others when it failed to live up to its ideals.
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"We're Gonna Take Everyone" – Border Patrol Targets Prominent Humanitarian Group As Criminal Organization
The prosecution of No More Deaths volunteers, who leave water in the desert for migrants, reveals the group is being targeted by the Border Patrol.
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Testing Controversial Voter ID Rules, Britain Eyes An Uncertain Electoral Future
Some 4,000 voters across Bromley, Woking, Gosport, Watford and Swindon were turned away from the local election polling booths because they didn't have a bank card, driving license or passport.
