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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The Power of Public Comments
In March, Occupy the SEC submitted a 325-page comment letter recommending that the Volcker Rule—a regulation to limit Wall Street's most outrageous behavior—be strengthened rather than gutted.
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Fighting BAC
We don’t want Bank of America to fail - but it already has failed, and only our tax dollars and our government’s continued protection is keeping that failure from becoming common knowledge.
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Kill This Bill! Or, How to Slay a Dragon
Occupy Atlanta helped build a coalition to defeat Georgia’s anti-speech and anti-union bill, demonstrating people power in action.
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Why Are We Here? One Occupier's Answer
You've seen us on the news. You've seen us in the parks. You've seen us marching down the street. Since we first took Zuccotti Park on September 17, we've been asked a lot of things. We've been asked to get a job. We've been asked to run a candidate.
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Debt and the Tar Sands
The same debt that is driving millions into destitution - and which drove many Occupiers to the streets - is also driving corporations and their stockholders to liquidate every bit of nature they can.
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Mother Activism on the Rise
Feminist mothering is about reshaping societies so that mothers are recognized as both contributors to, and recipients of, global justice. That, it seems to me, is also the aim of the Occupy Movement.
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Poetry: The World We Want is US
the joyful news of your arrest/this sunday morning everything/is bringing tears.
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The American Spring
The National Occupation of Washington, DC, is bringing occupiers together to share experiences, educate each other and build an independent movement to shift power from concentrated wealth.
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A New Declaration
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise.
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General Strike Rocks Spain
Last Thursday, people across Spain made a show of force in a general strike, on a scale ranging from the government estimate of 800,000 to the four million claimed by the unions.