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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Thousands March In Philadelphia Kicking Off Vocal Week Of Protests At DNC
More than 10,000 people calling for a “clean energy revolution” filled the streets here Sunday.
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Season of the Demagogues: Brexit Exposes Ways Britain Is Moving Closer to U.S.
After Prime Minister David Cameron’s departure, Brexit Britain will hold a leadership race and possible national election later in 2016, with the race for Downing Street set to be as divisive as the Brexit campaign and perhaps even the U.S. presidential race.
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Act Out! [70] - Democrats, Republicans & The Illusion of Choice; Women in Boats for Freedom
This week, let's take a walk down the aisle – the political aisle, that is – and see where we might find some common ground. Next up, the Women's Boat to Gaza calls for peace and highlights the role of women in the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
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The People's Summit Seeks Direction Forward for the Political Revolution
Last weekend's People's Summit concentrated on domestic policy and economic inequality, featuring spirited debates, discussions and workshops that tried to chart the path ahead for America's new left.
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Act Out! [65] - The Mysterious Presidential Frontrunner & an American Promise Unfulfilled
As the nonstop election coverage continues, the biggest player in the game has yet to get any airtime at all.
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Welcome to 1984
1984 America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly. It's in a moment of history that Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”: the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place.
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“Yes We Can!" From Spain to Britain to America, a Revitalized Left Is Emerging
What began in Zuccotti Park and then spread across North America was a major contributor to the Bernie Sanders phenomenon that has forced leftwing ideas into the U.S. political conversation for the first time in decades.
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Hillary Visits a Seattle High School, and Student Resentments Surface
We, as students, should have a right to decide whether our school is used as a stage for a political candidate – especially if a lot of the students and staff do not think that candidate has their best interests at heart.
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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Jasiri X Talks Black Lives Matter and the 2016 Presidential Race
Hip hop artist and social justice activist Jasiri X joins me to discuss Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and who should get the black vote in 2016.
