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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David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Can Public Banks Help Re-Write Our Financial Worldview?
The case for public banking begins by deconstructing the creation of money and, in a fairly stunning revelation if you’ve never heard it before, discussing how banks create “new money” when they make loans.
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Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.
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Putting Life Before Debt: The Global Rise of Citizen Debt Audits
The recent Life Before Debt conference in London showed not only how the rule of debt is being contested around the world, but the economic and real-life necessity for doing so.
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Strike Debt abolished $15m of people's debt
Strike Debt - an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street Movement - launched a project to buy up debt belonging to ordinary Americans and abolish it so that they never have to pay it back.
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Occupy Wall Street Group Buys $15 Million of Americans' Debt — And Abolishes It
Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group last November, purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills -- mainly medical ones.
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The Euro Crisis: Debtors’ Prison
The euro zone is blighted by private debt even more than by government debt.
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Germany's Euroskeptic "Alternative Party" Leads Fringe Heading into Sunday Elections
Alternative for Deutschland's success stems from its leaders exploiting Euroskepticism among Germans who feel their wealthy, productive country is unfairly shouldering the burden of economic growth in the E.U.
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Social Security's Explosive Injustices
Cutting Social Security is an outrageous injustice that may provoke historic shifts and splits in the political landscape.
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The Politics of Envy: Why the Super Rich Will Never Be Happy
The capture by the executive class of so much wealth performs no useful function. On the contrary, essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
