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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Across America, the Return of Debtor Prison
Debtor prisons seem to belong in America's past. They don't. Prison time for poor people in debt remains something that is practiced throughout the U.S. despite a 1983 Supreme Court ruling that bans it.
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It's Time to Ban the Pimps of Wall Street: Credit Ratings Agencies
There is no question that without the criminally incompetent credit rating agencies the Wall Street guys would not have been able to pull off the colossal heist against the American people. Now, we should go further and simply make them illegal.
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Federal Reserve: 'We Got Hacked by Anonymous'
The Federal Reserve released a statement Tuesday that members of Anonymous hacked its system on Superbowl Sunday to obtain sensitive information from more than 4,000 bank executives.
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Meet the Contractors Turning America's Police Into a Paramilitary Force
L3 Communications embodies the totality of the national security and surveillance state. Harris Corporation and B12 are also companies whose highly developed spy technology threatens our civil liberties.
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New ALEC Law Makes Reporting Factory Farm Abuse an "Act of Terrorism"
New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms.
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Big Money, ALEC and the Gun Agenda
Numerous bills to impede laws that would help protect Americans from gun violence were drafted by the NRA and adopted by ALEC corporations and legislators.
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5 Enemies of a Decent Middle Class Existence in the U.S.
Conservatives and the wealthy have taught too many Americans to hate their own government and not the parasite industries destroying the middle class.
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Employee-Owned Businesses Ignored by Mainstream Media
A bold new threat to the economic status quo brings on a press blackout.
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5 Unbelievably Creepy Surveillance Tactics
They could be ripped from the plot of a sci-fi movie.
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Greetings from Michigan, the Right-to-Rip-Off-Unions State
What should one call these Orwellian “right to work” laws?
