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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Fast Food Workers Strike Nationwide
Thousands of fast food and retail workers are striking across the United States on Thursday to push for a $15 hourly wage.
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BART Strike Gets Called Off, But Worker Concerns Are Growing
Transit workers and BART management stand tens of millions of dollars apart on a number of vital issues including pay, pension and health care. Though the governor halted the strike this week, future prospects for agreement look grim.
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Revealed: How Walmart, Exxon and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
Seven weeks into the 113th Congress, as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul, powerful corporate lobbyists in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute scored premium access to politicians.
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NYC Fast Food Workers Strike, Attempt to Unionize
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job Thursday, firing the first salvo in the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States.
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Portland to Protest Austerity
Community groups, Occupy Portland and unions including SEIU, CWA and Letter Carriers will march on Oregon's largest city Nov. 3 as they take aim at proposed government austerity cuts, and demand larger taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
