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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Why White Progressives Must Address Racial Injustice In 2016
The recent Black Lives Matter protest at the Netroots Nation conference was a teachable moment for everyone – forcing progressives to pick a side as they shape next year's electoral agenda.
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Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide
The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.
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Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby: I Owe My Success to "Warrior Women"
“For me, as a young black woman, to run against an older white male incumbent, powerful, with the ability to raise close to a million dollars, the skeptics wanted to know: how could I have the audacity?”
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"We're In a Revolutionary Moment": Why Chris Hedges Believes the Uprising Is Coming Soon
"You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you [can] become," says the author and journalist.
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Why Is U.S. Media Ignoring the Assault on Southern Black Churches?
That numerous black churches in the South have been burned just a little over a week since the racially-motivated terrorist attack in Charleston lends credibility to the theory that racist organizations are at work.
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Triumph Of Courage: Bree Newsome Takes Down the Confederate Flag In Charleston
I removed the flag not only in defiance of those who enslaved my ancestors in the southern United States, but also in defiance of the oppression that continues against black people globally in 2015.
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"Protest Is Broken": Co-Creator of Occupy Wall Street Calls for New Mental Shift
The co-creator of Occupy Wall Street has advice for the next generation of social movements: “Never protest the same way twice.”
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Is the Fight for $15 the Next Civil Rights Movement?
The cross-pollination of Black Lives Matter and the Fight for $15 provides an inspiring example of how interconnected issues of race and economic justice are empowering today's social movements.
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Protest Is the New Terror: How U.S. Law Enforcement Is Working to Criminalize Dissent
While the recent NSA reform bill passed in Congress is a victory for civil liberties advocates, the fear of terrorism being openly exploited by law enforcement has allowed police to resurrect COINTELPRO in all but name.
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Justice for All: Seattle's Kshama Sawant, Leader in Fight for $15, Talks About Movement's Next Steps
"All [working] people are latent activists. But to make them into activists they need to feel something deep in their hearts – in their gut. At the end of the day it is the tangible struggles that masses of people come out to fight."
