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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What This Economy Needs Now: Worker-Owned Enterprises
Worker-owned enterprises will change politics as they put democratic power in the workplace and build wealth among workers.
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CVS Battles Community Resistance Coast-to-Coast
CVS plans to locate itself at key downtown intersections, maximizing sales at the expense of safety, traffic and history. Now the California town of Sebastopol is fighting back.
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Revealed: America Sold Arms to Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons to the small Mideast nation.
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Dispatch from Greece: Meeting the "Antagonist" Movements
A visitor encounters Exarcheia, a hotbed of political activity, a bulwark against state power - and now an entire zone of Athens where police and those of the "wrong political persuasion" just don’t go.
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Requiem For a Species: Why The Game is Up
The long struggle between the human species and the Earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a painful lesson about unrestrained greed and self-worship.
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In Northern California, All Roads (Still) Lead to Wall Street
The new Community Action Lab in Santa Rosa, Calif., focuses on combating austerity, budget cuts and debt through its Student Union and Robin Hood projects. It kicks off with a teach-in this Thursday.
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Big Banks' Mortgage Fraud Payments Will Be Tax-Deductible
Some or all of the big banks' payments for mortgage abuse will actually be a corporate windfall, as the banks can claim them as business expenses. Taxpayers, therefore, will likely lighten the banks’ loads.
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8,000 New York City School Bus Drivers Go On Strike
Yellow buses, which the city is threatening to privatize, will stay off the streets Wednesday in a dispute that pits austerity city budgeting against demands for basic job security.
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Enbridge Tar Sands Hearings Interrupted by Activists
A day after 1,000 protesters forced their way past police lines in Vancouver, an action group intervened Tuesday in company discussions over tar sands developments, calling the hearing a "climate crime scene."
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Welcome to Blockadia!
A vast but interwoven web of campaigns are building a unified front in Oklahoma and Texas, where people are standing up against the fossil fuel industry and demanding an end to the development of tar sands pipelines.
