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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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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Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
It’s time to talk bluntly about the terrarists of our world: the men who run giant energy companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and Shell.
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Big Coal Faces Even Bigger Opposition in Pacific Northwest
The Kinder Morgan victory -- in which a powerful energy company retracted plans to build a coal export terminal on the Columbia River in Oregon -- provides a good case study for how communities have been able to beat back the coal industry.
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
People sometimes have the power to make change happen — if and when they come together and act.
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NASA's James Hansen Takes the Case Against Tar Sands to Britain
Hansen accused the Canadian government of "holding a club" over the U.K. and European nations to accept its "dirty" oil, while a new study confirmed that 97% of climate reports attribute climate change to human actions.
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Former Obama Communications Director Profits Big with Keystone XL Pipeline
Obama's former communications director Anita Dunn is a corporate PR chief whose private firm will gain from tar sands extraction and shipment.
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Fracking is Coming to California Unless the People Stop It
Fracking the 15 billion barrels of oil discovered in the Monterey Shale deposit will add 6.8 million tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere — delaying California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act by 80 years.
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19-Year-Old Kennedy: Why It’s Worth Going to Jail to Stop Keystone XL
Ever since I chained myself to the White House fence with 47 other protestors urging President Obama to kill the Keystone pipeline, people have asked me why I felt so strongly about the issue.
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In Oklahoma, Blockader Encases Arm In Concrete to Halt Keystone XL Construction
A member of the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance shut down pipeline construction Thursday morning with a daring act of civil disobedience.
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Letter from Mayflower, Arkansas: From the Blockade to Mutual Aid
Before going to Mayflower, I had never seen tar sands bitumen in person. I had never smelled it, nor had I experienced how it starts to sicken you the minute you get near it: headaches, burning throat, fatigue, gut-aches, vomiting and diarrhea.
