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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The Comeback of the Commons: Uniting People, Resources and Economies
Commoning forms the basis for a kind of economics run by neither state nor market but rather by community relationships in which everyone has a personal stake in a shared property or project.
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After the People’s Climate March, It Is Time To Demand More
Precious time will tell what lasting impacts the demonstrations will have – but already the climate protests that shook New York and much of the world left their mark upon upper echelon spheres of power.
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The Subprime Education Scandal: For-Profit Colleges and America's Factories of Debt
With student loan debt quadrupling between 2003 and 2013, it’s time to ask whether education alone – not to mention the kind that robs you for profit – can move people up the class ladder.
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More Than 100 Arrested As Climate Change Activists #FloodWallStreet
Thousands of protesters shut down blocks of Broadway in Lower Manhattan for hours on Monday in a demonstration that cast the blame for climate change squarely on Wall Street.
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Five Ways Occupy Wall Street Is Making Inroads Across America
From defending homeowners against unlawful foreclosure to opposing skyrocketing student debt and bolstering the low wage workers movement, seeds planted by Occupy continue to spread and grow.
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September 17 Actions Mark Three-Year Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
On the third anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we'll be gathering in Zuccotti Park, New York City, for a full day of speakers, workshops and teach-ins – concluded, of course, with a march on Wall Street.
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Where Are the Occupy Protesters Now?
Social media makes it easier and cheaper to build movements quickly – but bypassing the business of creating decision-making infrastructure means they can disappear just as fast.
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Noam Chomsky on Human Extinction: The Corporate Elite are Actively Courting Disaster
Climate change poses an imminent threat to human life, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky – and humans are drawing their own doom ever closer.
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An Ex-Banker and Occupier Walk Into A Jail. Guess Which One's Serving Time?
Cecily McMillan is behind bars, unlike any of the architects of the financial crisis. In this exclusive conversation she explains why her sentence serves a purpose.
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New York City Agrees To Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever
New York City taxpayers are still paying for the NYPD's approach to policing lawful protest.