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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Iceland, A Land of Vikings, Braces for a Pirate Party Takeover
The party that could be on the cusp of winning Iceland’s national elections on Saturday didn’t exist four years ago.
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Kurdish Women Fight Odds to Broadcast on Women's Rights
Radio Dange Nwe, founded and run by women in Halabja in northern Iraq, has made waves with a program that fights conservative ideas and helps refugee women discuss and solve their problems.
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Polish Black Protests Escalate As Attack on Reproductive Rights Roils Nation
The proposed legislation promised to outright ban abortion in the country, even in cases of pregnancy resulting from sexual abuse, threatening women and doctors performing the operation with up to five years' imprisonment.
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French Nuit Debout Movement Creates New Paradigm For Horizontal Democracy
Nuit Debout is apartisan, but not apolitical.
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Occupy Is Everywhere
The return of encampments as a tactic is telling us something, if we’d care to listen.
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A Failure To Integrate: The Darker Picture of Europe's Refugee Crisis
The European Union has had a long history of conditionally welcoming refugees – Germany and France being prime examples in the 1950s – but an equally long history of failure to integrate them.
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Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting For Land and Life
Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Women Who Stop Oil: Female Leadership Crucial At Dakota Pipeline Protests
Women are leading the battle against the Black Snake, the latest in fast-tracked fossil fuel pipeline projects attempting to carry crude oil across the U.S.
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#Staygrounded Action In London Makes Airports New Focal Point for Social Justice
A frequent flyer busy on her cellphone steps over the bodies on the floor as she checks in at Heathrow Airport, part of a “die in” last week staged by Reclaim the Power, which also hosted a frequent flyer check-in for the 1%.
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45 Years After Attica Uprising, Prisoners Are Rebelling Again
Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions.
