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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Act Out! [46] - Some Facts Over Fiction, A Presidential Obsession & Less Meat 4 the Planet
This week, politicians lie – and we're buying it? Let's do some fact checking and lie wrecking post-State of the Union and mid-presidential primary madness.
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Acronym TV [53] Obama’s Siren Song, Jill Stein on Bernie + Medea Benjamin on Obama
This week on the show, we evaluate Obama's siren song and visit the Yes! Men in Europe.
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“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
Not only is Adam McKay's movie a good way to understand how the big banks screwed millions of Americans out of their homes, savings, and jobs, then got bailed out by taxpayers – but a lesson in why they’re on the way to doing all this again.
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Acronym TV [52] Bernie Sanders v. Wall Street, Obama on Gun Control, TransCanada Sues United States
On the show this week, Bernie Sanders said "too big to fail" banks don’t have the right to exist.
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Acronym TV 2015 Year in Review: War, Protest and Politics
A look back on some of the biggest stories of the year – from what to do about the threat of ISIS, to the unlikely rise of a socialist Senator from Vermont.
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Thanks to Bernie, "Socialism" Is Most Looked-Up Word of 2015 on Merriam-Webster
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders sparked a 169% rise in look-ups, says the U.S. dictionary publisher, which “shows the term has moved beyond its cold war associations.”
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Bernie Sanders Schools America On Socialism In Landmark Speech
Distancing himself from the “radical” label applied to self-described socialists in the U.S., the presidential candidate instead placed himself in the left-wing American tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Students at 100 Campuses Join First-Ever March for Tuition-Free College
The student debt crisis has reached a boiling point. Instead of despairing, students across the country have spent months organizing what is expected to be an historic nationwide walkout.
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Bernie Sanders Launches Climate Plan Banning New Fossil Fuel Extraction On Public Land
The Keep it in the Ground Act, jointly introduced with Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, would ban all new coal, oil and gas mining leases on federal government lands and waters.
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Socialism with an American Face
A possible answer is quietly emerging in many parts of the country – it involves changing and democratizing who owns productive wealth, but unlike traditional socialism, it does so in a radically decentralized, populist and very American form.
