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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Protesters March Nationwide As #ReclaimMLK Day Highlights Racial Injustice
Tens of thousands of people across the country came out to volunteer, march and celebrate the civil rights leader's legacy and to call for an end to police brutality and violence.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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Enough Police Bullying: Stop the NYPD Coup
Police need to feel empowered so they don't fear speaking up when they see misbehavior by their colleagues.
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Why 5,000 U.K. Police Officers Could Be Off the Job Due to Austerity Cuts
As unruly protests by New York City police continue to rile U.S. media, police officers in the U.K. are finding themselves on the austerity frontlines with thousands of jobs threatened in the coming years.
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The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate
The crooked math that's going to crash American law enforcement if policies aren't changed.
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Millions March December 13 As Anger Over Police Violence Sweeps the Nation
We are continuing where the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement left off – we are a new generation of young multiracial activists willing to take up the torch and we’re not going to stand for this anymore.
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Beyond Rage, It's Time for Solutions and Leadership from Black America
The anger and frustration at a discriminatory system is palpable – now, can the anti-police brutality movement go beyond rhetoric and offer concrete ideas for new policies and legislation?
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A Society of Captives: Battling Police Violence and the Business of Injustice
Mass acts of civil disobedience, now being carried out across the country, are the only mechanism left that offers hope for systematic legal and judicial reform.
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Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part I
One way to make the apathy of privileged whites irrelevant is to build institutions that guarantee material economic justice.
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Eric Garner Protests Fill the Streets From New York to Chicago to San Francisco
Many thousands took to the streets of New York City on Thursday night to protest the non-indictment of white New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, whose illegal choke hold led to the death of Eric Garner.
