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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Wars Profit the 1%, Part III: How Armed Conflict Drives Climate Change
Oil and the war business are as connected to each other as they are tied to capitalism – which is why, to tackle climate change, we need to dismantle both.
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Mega Conspiracy? How the Case Against Kim Dotcom Reveals Flaws in American Justice
Vast resources of the U.S. government are being deployed at the bidding of the entertainment industry, which saw its profits threatened by Internet pioneers like Dotcom and his Megaupload content-sharing empire.
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"Who Pays" Report Shows Why Women Of Color Bear the Costs of Mass Incarceration
Surveys of hundreds of formerly incarcerated people and their families in 14 states show that the true costs, emotional and financial, continue long after incarceration ends and reach far beyond the individual being punished
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Border Patrol Agent Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Mexican Teenager
Federal authorities have charged U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz with second degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in a cross-border shooting, under the claim that he had been throwing rocks.
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Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction
Housing activists who were protesting the eviction of families took to the roofs Wednesday as enforcement officers used battering rams in an operation to remove them from housing estate.
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Megaload Founder and Internet Freedom Icon Kim Dotcom In Court Facing U.S. Extradition
"This case is not just about me – it's about how much control we allow U.S. corporations and the U.S. government to have over the Internet."
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A Century of Mass Government Surveillance Is Enough – It’s Time for New Limits
As a nation we're uncomfortable with the morality of the degree – not the kind – of intelligence collection that occurs as a result of secret government-business partnerships.
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Wars Profit the 1%, Part II: How the U.K. Military Machine Is Creating Refugees
Last week's DSEi arms fair in London happened as Europe's refugee crisis reaches new proportions and countries respond to a disaster created in large part by the continent's thriving war machine.
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Occupy Lawsuit Accuses N.Y.P.D. Of Repressing Free Speech During Mass Arrests
A new federal lawsuit centers on more than 200 arrests made on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in September of 2012, when the NYPD arrested and harassed protesters for no reason other than that they were protesting.
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Leaked Emails Reveal Close Ties Between Heritage Foundation and Lockheed Martin
Defense contractors have historically played an outsized role shaping the national security debate through think tank funding – as was the case in the large donations Lockheed Martin gave Heritage, which lobbied intensely for its F-22 fighter jets.
