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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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Should Nationalize Utilities
PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.
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Homelessness and Hate Crimes Set to Rise in Post-Brexit Britain
As Brexit bedlam intensifies and Britain edges closer to its agonizing E.U. departure date of March 29, grim reports are surfacing about the real impacts the move will have on U.K. citizens' safety and well being.
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Rise of Spain's Far-Right Vox Party Signals European Shift
As Vox's xenophobic, right-wing messaging cause open alarm among political analysts, the party is hard at work rebranding itself as anything other than another European right-wing populist movement.
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Public Workers’ Trump Card
Never underestimate the power of airport delays to arouse the nation. If there’s no border security agreement this time around, the controllers won’t work another 35 days without pay.
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Rebel Cities 19: Gdansk's Murdered Mayor Was Leading the Polish Charge Against Fascism
Occupy.com pays tribute to Pawel Adamowicz by focusing on Gdansk's citizens' assemblies that he was instrumental in helping to build – and which he saw as a democratic tool to facilitate democracy in Poland and beyond.
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Striking Los Angeles Teachers Won Big. Here's What Their Victory Means.
The successful L.A. teachers strike helps move the balance of power in California and nationally toward public education, and against both austerity and the privatization of education through charter schools.
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People Power: 160,000 European Protesters Demand Action on Climate Crisis
Tens of thousands march in France and Belgium demanding urgent action on climate crisis.
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‘Onslaught of Outrage’: Resistance and Activism Reawaken in Trump Era
Two years since his inauguration, millions of Americans have built on recent movements such as Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 to rally, march and strike against the president.
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Recycling Is Not Enough. Zero-Packaging Stores Show We Can Kick Our Plastic Addiction
Can we dispose with our disposable mentality by doing something to cut down on all the packaging of our food and beverages? Some places like Australia are showing us how.
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"Quite A Radical Policy": Manchester Bans Fracking In Victory for U.K. Activists
In a move that could have repercussions on the fracking industry nationwide, Manchester in northwest England has announced that it is effectively banning the practice.
