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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Labor Strikes Back: A Forum on How Workers Can Win
Based on recent labor activism by teachers and workers, there is a clear opportunity to build a “mass movement from below” and bring a bottom (99%) versus top (1%) progressive strategy to the 2020 elections.
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Act Out! [100] - What We Can Learn from Russia & It’s Time To Be Ungovernable
This week it's Act Out!'s 100th episode! In honor of that, we're taking a look at the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution – and more importantly, the parallels we can draw so that we might learn from history rather than repeat it.
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Where’s the Best Place to Resist Trump? At Work
Since jobs and trade were the policy centerpieces of his campaign, Trump has brought the fight to the workplace – and workers need to respond in kind.
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General Strike Feb. 17: What Will Happen If Activists Stage a Nationwide Strike Against Trump?
"Let’s designate a day on which no one (that is, anyone who can do so without being fired) goes to work, a day when no one shops or spends money, a day on which we truly make our economic and political power felt."
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Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
The day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, perhaps the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
