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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Pat Tillman’s Father: A Poem
Pat Tillman’s father is way out there/like a space rape kit, unexamined/unlistened to under the microscope.
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Off Our Computers and Into the Streets!
There are many innovations changing how we think about what online organizing is capable of - and building clear pathways to support offline, real-world actions.
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DHS to Double U.S. Drone Fleet
The Department of Homeland Security wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones used to fly surveillance missions inside the United States, despite critical warnings that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to U.S. citizens.
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Black Friday at Walmart: #Occupied
Across the country, activists stood with underpaid Walmart workers on Black Friday.
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The Legacy of Occupy: Sticking It to Wall Street
To “occupy” Wall Street is no longer a policy demand, if it ever was. Extending democracy to Wall Street might be a better and bolder banner - with proposals for greater disclosure, accountability, regulation, a transactions tax and more.
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Divest! A Campaign Heats Up to Dump Fossil Fuel Funding
Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, groups are now asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies.
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"Spoils": Film Documents Americans Who Reap An "Extraordinary Harvest" From Waste
The modern freeganism movement — also known simply as dumpster diving — has spawned a culture of its own.
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia, as elites establish a world where most will be hungry and live in fear while a few will gorge themselves on delicacies in protected compounds.
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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
While increasing corporate patent rights and curbing Internet freedom, the TPP would also establish an "international tribunal" to enforce the "rights" of corporations over governmental law regarding environment, finance and labor rights.
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Numbers To Die For: What the Ultra Rich Are Getting Away With
Here are ten facts that reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country and confirm that tax avoidance, rather than a lack of middle-class initiative, is the cause.
