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.
Fight for $15
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Social Movements Converge on April 4 Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination
The Fight for $15 and the Movement for Black Lives will take to the streets nationwide April 4 in a two-dozen-city “Fight Racism, Raise Pay” protest.
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Japan Builds a Fight For $15 Movement of Its Own
On a recent Sunday afternoon, some 400 protesters — comprised of workers, students and retirees — poured into the streets of Tokyo’s bustling commercial center to demand a living wage, modeled on the U.S. Fight for $15.
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As Trump Comes Into Focus, So Do Our Tasks
The potential for people working together in solidarity will grow and the long-term impact of the Trump era could be a mass movement that will change the political culture in the United States.
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Scores arrested in first 'Fight for $15' protest since Trump win
Scores of demonstrators were arrested on Tuesday as U.S. fast-food and airport workers led nationwide protests for higher pay and union rights in their first major action since Donald Trump was elected president.
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The Real Living Wage? $17.28 An Hour – At Least
In almost every state, a worker needs more than $15 an hour to make ends meet. Add in student debt, and the minimum living wage shoots up to $18.67 an hour nationally.
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Inequality Is Still the Defining Issue of Our Time
Fierce battles over trade, labor rights and executive compensation will determine whether we can really narrow the gap.
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5 Years After Zuccotti Park, Occupy Movement Is Driving America's Political Change
The next time someone says the Occupy movement is dead, ask them this: “Do you really think serious activists for social and economic justice were going to spend the rest of their lives living in tents in parks?”
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California's $15 Minimum Wage Earthquake
Workers, more than half of them women and Latinos, will receive on average one quarter more in wages, or about $3,700 per year adjusted for inflation.
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Minimum Wage Momentum Nationwide Continues to Surge
Wages hit $15 from D.C. to Silicon Valley and a new analysis points to the working class’s multicultural future.
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The Afterbern: “He’s Not Moving A Party to the Left – He's Moving A Generation to the Left”
Without Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Fight for $15, the mobilization of teachers and nurses, immigrant movements, and many other struggles, there would never have been a Bernie Sanders campaign.
