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 to Make of the ALEC Exodus
On February 29, Occupy Portland led the charge as dozens of cities nationwide targeted ALEC on a day to "Shut Down the Corporations." Six weeks later, several companies have ended their affiliation with ALEC.
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23 Arrested Trying to Save a Mental Health Clinic
Last week, dozens of people sequestered themselves inside Woodlawn Adult Health Center using thick metal chains and bicycle locks to stop the closing of six public mental health clinics and the privatization of seven others.
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A Veteran Fights the Real Enemy
By engaging veterans and gangsters with the Occupy Movement, Sergeant Shamar Thomas is helping re-channel the anger of men from "the warrior community" toward the real enemy he says they should be fighting: the 1%.
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An Olive Branch from the Tea Party
The media wants the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street to duke it out because it fits perfectly into our two-party system’s “us-against-them” mentality. While we may have widely divergent views on particular issues, we can agree that the current political system is tilted in favor of rich Americans.
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The Tax Avoidance Pantheon
With the help of SEC data and the results of several research studies, PayUpNow.org has selected the winners of the 2011 Tax Avoidance Awards, which honor multibillion-dollar corporations that reap billions but pay next to nothing in taxes.
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Yes, We Have Made Them, and other poems
the glass towers, the stone monuments
to every principle we have ever betrayed
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
This week in Occupy, Santa Monica College backs down on tuition hikes after pepper-spraying its students, thousands pour into the streets of Chicago in numbers not seen since the Fall, urban
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Fiction: Louder Than Words
“These civilians,” his hoarse cry, on camera for the world. “Why violence? Against peaceful protesters? Against your brothers and sisters, citizens like you, of this country!”
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Only Occupy Can Restore Direct Democracy to America
Through its General Assemblies and horizontal decision-making, Occupy Wall Street has brought direct democracy back to America.
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Poetry: Hiatus
But out of the glare of the media stare, the knowledge unerringly spreads: the old ways are broken, the people have spoken, and a new generation now treads.
