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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Pennsylvania Greenlights Fracking on College Campuses
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett last week signed a bill authorizing schools to cut contracts with energy companies that will open the door for oil drilling, coal mining and fracking on college campuses across the state.
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Orwell Revisited: The Arithmetic of Political Lies
Those involved in politics — the politicians, reporters and corporate lobbyists — are constantly lying. It isn't so different from what George Orwell presented in "Animal Farm" and "1984." Here are the four basic types of political lies.
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Fanning the Flames of Debt Resistance
One year into Occupy, the movement has gone through something of a rebranding around the theme of debt.
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Rebellion in Greece: "The Time Has Come"
Greece was brought to a grinding halt by its second general strike in less than a month, as thousands protested Thursday in a mass outpouring of fury over austerity policies that have plunged ever growing numbers into poverty and fear.
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Poem: We're in Need of Repair
Bankers writing our laws, our rights to impair, playing tricks with the law, so they'll be billionaires. "And no one to prosecute," they proclaim with a flair: "It was more or less legal, we promise, we swear!"
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Occupy Our Homes Gears Up for December Campaign
This past year, activists across the country declared housing a human right. In December, the Occupy Our Homes movement will grow stronger.
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In Canada, Late Efforts to Measure Environmental Hazards of Tar Sands
The Alberta government said Wednesday a new scientific agency to monitor the environmental impacts of oil sands production will provide "credible" and "arms-length" analysis. But Greenpeace fired back about the province's "flawed data and incomplete information."
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Californians Say No To Drones At Home
Local residents and civil rights organizations are resisting a Sheriff's attempts to deploy drones over Alameda County in the Bay Area, highlighting the invasion of privacy, militarization of police forces and the restriction of free speech and political expression.
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U.S. Sues Wells Fargo: Yet Another Bailed-Out Bank Accused of Fraud
Wells Fargo got as much as $36 billion in federal aid after the financial crash. Now it is the latest bank being sued by the U.S. government for vast fraud in the mortgage markets.
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Snapped in Two: The Human Costs of Deregulation
Conservatives believe that enriching individuals will eventually enrich society, and that government should not get in the way of the process. We're now at the mercy of those deregulators. And these five big downward trends happen as a result.
