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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Escalating the War on Low-Income Families
It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.
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Cracks in Capitalism, Part III: "The Divide" Shows Inequality On the Big Screen
Katharine Round’s new documentary, "The Divide," adds substantially to the debate around inequality as it explains in clear terms how our 35-year experiment in neoliberalism has failed spectacularly.
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Wealth Belongs To All Of Us – Not Just To The Rich
As a white male, everything I have is a gift of the system.
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Five Years Later, the Recession Lingers Only for the 99%
Only the 1% has prospered since the financial crisis five years ago.
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Letter from a College Student: Occupy Remains Underdeveloped
The Occupy Movement's inspiring intentions are moving and worth starting a revolution for, but their calls to change have fallen on deaf ears of the majority of those who fall under the 99%.
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Happy 158th! Revisiting the Socialism of Oscar Wilde
Should the “best amongst the poor” be grateful for meager scraps? Hell no, said Wilde, whose unique anarchist, non-authoritarian version of socialism still resonates today.
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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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Opinion: Workers Are The 99%, Plain and Simple
We now have the battle lines clearly drawn: those who want a new society, and those who want to keep it the way it is. But our current, amorphous definition of the 99% will not provide us with an adequate paradigm to move forward.
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From NY to SF, Thousands March to Celebrate Year-Old Movement
"Occupy" might not be the right name for the movement anymore, as Monday's actions were less about holding space than breaching it.
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The Help vs. The Wherewithal
The dream of living as the rich live can blind the dreamer to economic realities.