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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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police
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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Green New Deal, Part IV: Britain's Snap Election Offers a Life or Death Choice
Britain's fast approaching General Election on Dec. 12 represents a life or death decision for the country's two major parties – and, of significant more consequence, for the planet. Voters can back Labour's Green New Deal and act on the climate emergency, or they can elect the Conservative Party pushing an ever more destructive form of capitalism.
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Renewables Against Fascism: How A Green New Deal Can Beat the Far Right
Enacting a Green New Deal in rural Europe, old factories would be transformed into community solar workshops and abandoned buildings would be converted into community wind farms.
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Clearing the Air: A Green New Deal for Grenfell
Seeking justice for Grenfell residents enables us to ask bigger questions about ending environmental racism – and makes it possible to imagine communities and cities not consumed by the car.
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Movement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, ‘City of Revolutions’
The Sunrise Movement launched a national tour of U.S. cities on April 18 with a sold-out rally at the Strand Theater in Boston.
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Ocasio-Cortez: Maybe Wall Street Bankers 'Not the Best Authority' on Wellbeing of People and Planet
JP Morgan invested $195.66 billion in oil and gas companies between 2016 and 2018, making the Wall Street bank "the world's top funder of fossil fuels by a wide margin."
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Petro-State Norway Signals Oil Game Is Up
Europe's largest oil producer is effectively admitting the oil game is over and promises to divest from the industry – but it wants to play to the final whistle. Can it have it both ways?
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The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
Amid transatlantic proposals for a Green New Deal, monetary policy – normally relegated to obscure academic tomes and bureaucratic meetings behind closed doors – has suddenly taken center stage.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Should Nationalize Utilities
PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.
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Why Germany Leads in Renewables: It Has Its Own Green Bank
Along with the proposal for a Green New Deal, establishing a national public infrastructure and development bank should be a no-brainer. It's how Germany led the clean energy revolution.
