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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Lessons Wealthy Britain Could Learn from Preston’s Worker-Centric Growth
A new economic model is afoot in the Lancashire city where government pumped funds into Preston-based businesses and encouraged the creation of cooperations owned and operated by workers.
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Act Out! [161] - Grandmas in the Gutter, The Hidden Employment Stats & Puerto Rico’s Ongoing Disaster
This week on Act Out! UC workers strike but find a foe where the friendlies should be – an unfortunately familiar story.
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More Universities are Killing Off Liberal Arts Programs—And Yours Could be Next
Mike Williams, the chairman of University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's English department, described the paradox of eliminating his department to save jobs.
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Trump Wants to Replace Food Stamps with Food Boxes, for Some Reason
It’s like Blue Apron, but terrible.
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Right to Strike In U.K. Jeopardized By New Anti-Union Bill
If you make the right to strike so much harder to realize, you change the balance of power between the employer and employee.
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UN: Austerity Is Crippling Planet With One-Quarter of Europe Now In Poverty
The International Labor Organization says government austerity cuts driven by the financial crisis have especially hit the world's poorest, making basic services unattainable.
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Worker Militancy Gaining Momentum As British Firefighters Strike Over Pensions
Firefighters across the U.K. are heading to the picket lines to protest changes to their pensions – the latest unrest in Britain over government austerity measures.
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U.K. Teacher Strikes Reveal Public Sector Unrest As Trade Union Power Grows
A series of teacher strikes over pensions, pay and conditions in England and Wales are the most recent example of larger nationwide resistance to austerity and privatizations.
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Femi Kuti's Lyrical Politics and the Musical Uprising in Wisconsin
Solidarity singers in Madison haven’t missed a day of music since the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, when the movement for workers’ rights and against crony capitalism took the state by storm.
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Portland Residents Debate Austerity Cuts Ahead of Final City Budget
Along a stretch of sidewalk in front of Portland's City Hall, some 50 people stood braving the rain in the hours before the city's final public budget hearing last week, where heavy austerity cuts are expected to go through.
