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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Facing Right-Wing Future, Local-Level Resistance to Trump Agenda Swells
The incoming administration has fueled a new level of political activism.
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Remembering Anthony Atkinson, Godfather of Research into Income and Wealth Distribution
With a new Congress and White House committed to wealth’s concentration, we’ll sorely miss the scholar who dedicated his life to documenting wealth’s maldistribution.
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The Failure of Passive Revolution
The Obama project was never intended to challenge the socio-economic order – but Trumpism has further fractured ruling groups, leading to a crisis of the state that opens up space for popular and leftist responses from below.
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Resistance At Standing Rock: The People From Oceti Sakowin Camp
Some of the faces and voices from Standing Rock, in their own words.
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NAACP Sit-in At Jeff Sessions’s Office Ends in Six Arrests
Police arrested six protesters, including the national NAACP president, after they spent hours staging a sit-in Tuesday at a Mobile, Alabama, office of Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general.
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Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin’s Bank Accused of “Widespread Misconduct” in Leaked Memo
Prosecutors say OneWest Bank, which Mnuchin ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws, violating notice and waiting period statues, illegally backdating documents and gaming foreclosure auctions.
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More Than 1,100 Law School Professors Nationwide Oppose Sessions’s Nomination as Attorney General
A letter signed by professors from 170 law schools in 48 states, which was sent to Congress on Tuesday, urged the Senate to reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general.
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Occupy the Cinema: "Rogue One" and the Rebellion Against Empire
"Rogue One," released at the dawn of Donald Trump’s reign, is not just a tome against aggressive and ignorant power, but a reminder that anyone and everyone can become susceptible to those elements – from a Texas buffoon to a kid named Barry.
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The Wizard of Odds: Reality TV Takes Over the White House in Trumpenstein's America
The media spins the Trump victory as though it originated from “white” pain: the white working (mostly male) pain of being shocked by change, and made to merge into a cultural landscape of earthy tones rather than perpetual beige as far as the eye can see.
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Robert Reich: Why President Trump Will Continue to Hold Rallies
Trump's rallies and tweets allow Trump to tell Big Lies without fear of contradiction.
