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
Follow:
-
Strikes by U.S. Workers Outpacing Rate in 2018
New strikes this month by hospital workers in Toledo, Ohio; teachers in Oregon, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina; and international strikes and protests by Uber and Lyft drivers are further galvanizing the labor movement.
-
Rebel Cities 24: How Catalonia's CUP Party Is Helping Reclaim Towns, Cities and Nation
The muncipalist thread interwoven into the radical Catalan independence movement offers insight into how to challenge state power—a paramount concern for municipalists everywhere.
-
Record Student Loan Debt Shadows This Year’s College Graduates
Students face a Catch-22: not going to college almost guarantees not progressing into the middle class, but high student loan debt also restricts social and economic advancement.
-
Extinction Rebellion Must Evolve to Tackle Our Systemic Climate Crisis
To really tell the truth about climate change, the rebels in Extinction Rebellion need to call out climate criminals. Anything else is a whitewash.
-
Rebel Cities 23: Japanese Food Co-op Seikatsu Offers Hope for a Starving Planet
The Seikatsu model of food supply provides a working solution toward the intensifying capitalist-driven global food crisis. It could be a model that others worldwide choose to follow.
-
We Are (Still) the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.
-
Field Notes 2020: Andrew Yang’s War for Normal People
The presidential candidate has three big ideas: universal basic income, Medicare for all, and “human-centered capitalism.” The first one alone would enlarge the economy 12.6% in the first 8 years.
-
2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector
Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.
-
Greta Thunberg at London Climate Protest: "We Will Never Stop Fighting"
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since anti-climate change protests started in the British capital one week ago by the global body Extinction Rebellion.
-
Movement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, ‘City of Revolutions’
The Sunrise Movement launched a national tour of U.S. cities on April 18 with a sold-out rally at the Strand Theater in Boston.
