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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This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor
Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.
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From Selma to Springfield: Why We’re Marching in Illinois
With our March to Springfield, we are bringing the crisis to our capital and forcing our state legislature to deal with the budget impasse.
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AFL-CIO to Planet Earth: Drop Dead
In sharp contrast to Richard Trumka and the AFL-CIO, some unions really want to restrain climate change and are now vocally opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Can the Climate Movement Break Free from the "Jobs Vs. Environment" Debate?
A growing green industry born of the United States’ hostile labor climate is unlikely to produce steady, good paying jobs without a fight.
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Welcome to Commonomics: Learning to Build Local, Self-Reliant Economies
When it comes to sustainability and localism, people excluded from policymaking often have the most innovative ideas for building strength.
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Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline
Amidst the ongoing jobs-vs-environment debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, one voice is noticeably absent: the bitumen workers in Canada who are largely against long-term tar sands extraction and the building of the pipeline.
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Chicago Readies for NATO
Protesters arriving for ten "Days of Action" in Chicago are focusing on an array of issues - education funding, immigrant detention, foreclosures, the environment, economic inequality - while protesting against NATO.
