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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Google Becomes Latest Tech Giant to Drop A.L.E.C. Over Climate Denial
Microsoft, Facebook, Yelp and Yahoo are among other firms parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has consistently opposed and obstructed climate change policies.
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UC Study: Police Often Provoke Protest Violence – Not the Other Way Around
From clashes during the Occupy movement to violence this month in Ferguson, Mo., researchers say protests get ugly when officers use aggressive tactics, dress in riot gear and line up like military.
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World's Biggest PR Company Axes Climate Change Deniers – But Forgets About A.L.E.C.
If Edelman is serious about not working for groups that deny climate change, it needs to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council – which which works harder than anyone to block climate policy.
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Magazine Publisher Brings Pizza – and Leadership – to Streets Of Ferguson
The shooting of Michael Brown unearthed in Keith Griffin powerful and once-latent feelings about race, community and an individual's responsibility in times of crisis.
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Why Police Killings Of Black Men In America Constitute A Human Rights Crisis
The father of a slain black teen in Jacksonville, Florida, is in Geneva this week before the United Nations for what he says are murders committed with impunity against young black men in America.
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Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Sustained Protests Follow Michael Brown Shooting In Missouri
“We were just sitting on the ground in the street, singing We Shall Not Be Moved. They told us, ‘Get off the street’, and then they started shooting gas canisters at us."
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A.L.E.C. Launches Ultra-Conservative Lobby Group to Corrupt Government At Local Level
Under the American City County Exchange, local and city councils will see more privatization, more public services sold off or cut, and decision-making increasingly in the hands of large corporations far away.
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Post-Occupied: Where Are We Now?
Occupy did not happen in a vacuum, and any attempt to analyze it in one will fail. What happens next depends on how prepared people are to choose a direction, and how ready they are to push.
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Exposing ALEC: When Will U.S. Media Shine a Light on the Dark Lobby Empire?
Since 2011, the arch-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has lost more than 60 corporate members and nearly 400 state legislative members. But even this apparently isn't news enough to expose the shadow group.
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Santa Rosa, Calif., Outraged By Police Killing Of Latino Teenager Holding Toy Gun
13-year-old Andy Lopez was walking through his neighborhood carrying a plastic gun that police thought was an automatic weapon. Within seconds, cops opened fire.
