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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Citizens United Anniversary: How Anthony Kennedy Turned American Democracy Into an "Open Sewer"
Once billed as a “moderate conservative,” Kennedy is a libertarian former corporate attorney from Sacramento who toiled in his father’s scandal-ridden lobbying law firm “influencing” California legislators before Ronald Reagan helped him reach the bench.
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Act Out! [42] - Break Free in 2016, Our Corporate Constitution & Get Yourself Some Panoramic Awareness
Get a glimpse of what's to come for the global climate movement in 2016, and Agunda Okeyo talks art and activism from the global, black female perspective.
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The Investments of the 158: Look Who's Buying American Democracy
For the country's biggest political donors, the success of their "investments" depends on whether their candidates get elected, lower their taxes further, expand loopholes and let them get even richer.
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Secret Donors Fuel Democratic Political Powerhouse
Patriot Majority USA, the Democrat-backed dark money juggernaut, failed last election cycle when Republicans widened control of the Senate – and collected half of the $30 million it raised last year from five anonymous donors.
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Can This ReFormers Caucus Actually Tackle Money In Politics?
More than 100 former senators, governors and members of Congress from both parties have joined forces and come out publicly attacking the corrosive of influence political money and calling for campaign finance reforms.
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Seattle Voters Take Aim At Big Money In Politics
Ballot initiative I-122 will create a public financing model in which residents would give $100 in vouchers to the candidates of their choice.
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All In the Family: Here's Who's Buying The 2016 Presidential Election
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House – with most wealth coming from the fossil fuel and financial service industries, and almost all of it going toward Republicans.
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The Billion-Dollar Question: When Will the U.S. Repair Its Damaged Democracy?
To watch American politics today is to watch money speaking – and the sums involved dwarf those in any other mature democracy.
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Ending the Weath Grip: America's Crisis Of Public Not Private Morality
Our problems have nothing to do with what happens in bedrooms or whether women can end their pregnancies. They have have everything to do with what occurs in boardrooms and whether corporations and the wealthy get to undermine our democracy.
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Super PACs Promise Record-Shattering $10 Billion Presidential Election
Spending more than twice as much as the last three White House races combined, the unregulated fundraising juggernauts backed by unlimited contributions from wealthy donors threaten to completely shape – and control – the 2016 race.
