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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Protesters Facing Police Presence Blockade Oil Train in Vancouver, Washington
Our community and our planet are under attack, yet the political response has been amoral and inadequate. We were here on the tracks a year after the Mosier oil train derailment and nothing has changed,” said Jessie Braverman, a protester.
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People’s Climate March draws 200,000 protesters as Trump flees to coal country
What environmental protest?
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100,000 & Counting For People’s Climate March On Washington On April 29
Attacks on U.S. citizens, communities, and the planet cannot continue.
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How the March for Science Seized San Francisco, Fuelling A Growing Movement
“The tone of the conversation is that scientists fundamentally felt like their work, who they were, was being questioned," said March for Science creator Kishore Hari, calling Saturday's protests "the largest science event in the history of humankind.”
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The March for Science Sweeps the Globe
The marches had a strong unifying theme: Opposition to recent cuts
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Saturday, April 22: The March for Science, explained
On Earth Day, this Saturday, April 22, tens of thousands of science-friendly individuals will gather on the National Mall, in satellite marches across all 50 states, and in more than 500 events around the globe.
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Spokane Climate Activists Sue U.S. Government For Constitutional Violations
The lawsuit known as Holmquist et. al. v. United States asserts that the federal law preempting city health and safety laws over fossil fuel rail shipments violates residents’ constitutional right to a healthy climate and local self-government.
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The Economics of Climate Change: Crash or Transformation?
A former regulator of the Bank of England, Paul Fisher, recently admitted that climate change could trigger the next financial crisis – a radical admission and an astute one, given the colliding factors threatening our system.
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The Time Is Now for Direct Action on Climate Change
We're in an emergency, and no one in power is treating it as such. What has a chance of waking politicians of their torpor and spurring them – spurring all of us – to act with the clarity and determination the situation requires?
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Breaking Free By Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana
My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. I’ve found freedom in facing my fears and dispensing with false choices.
