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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Chicago Renters Back "ROOTS" As Solution to Affordable Housing
Renters Organizing Ourselves to Stay, an affordable housing program helping working families and long-time residents remain in Chicago, has already saved 18 properties and 41 units for affordable housing.
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Occupy the Cinema: With The Birth of A Nation, Nat Turner Lives!
Nate Parker's new film isn’t just a trip through history, but a reminder of now – if "12 Years A Slave" was a humanist drama and "Selma" was stoic strength, "Birth of a Nation" is a garbage can flying through a pizzeria window.
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Standing Firm at Standing Rock: Why the Struggle is Bigger Than One Pipeline
For indigenous people, the fight to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline is about reviving a way of life.
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Britain Emotional After Jeremy Corbyn Wins Vote to Retain Labour Party Leadership
But fears abound that the battle between the leftist Corbyn and his detractors may cause Labour to split into two parties.
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Worries Grow As British Government Vows To Scrap Human Rights Act
The Human Rights Act will be replaced with a so-called British Bill of Rights, a controversial manifesto that was written under the former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government.
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Scottish Independence Moves Closer As Momentum Swings Against UK
In light of the Brexit chaos, the broken promises and democratic deficit, it would be easy to think independence is certain – and judging by the movement's energy in Scotland, 2018 could be the year.
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5 Star on the Rise: Italy's First Crowd-Sourced Party Delivers Direct Democracy In Action
The transparency and political openness that helped the 5 Star Movement rise to power must now bring the party's current and future proposals to the forefront if it hopes to achieve any lasting change.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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AFL-CIO to Planet Earth: Drop Dead
In sharp contrast to Richard Trumka and the AFL-CIO, some unions really want to restrain climate change and are now vocally opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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5 Years After Zuccotti Park, Occupy Movement Is Driving America's Political Change
The next time someone says the Occupy movement is dead, ask them this: “Do you really think serious activists for social and economic justice were going to spend the rest of their lives living in tents in parks?”
