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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Threat of Rising Violence In Britain's Streets After Cuts Reduce Police Forces
The steep Tory-led austerity cuts have fostered a national police force that simply doesn't have the budget or resources to tackle rising crime – in particular the hate crimes that exploded after Brexit.
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20,000 Republicans Just Voted for An Actual Nazi
Arthur Jones, the former head of the American Nazi Party, ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. No Republican stepped up to oppose him.
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Germany's Dangerous Lean: What the Far-Right Victory Means for the Rest of Europe
As in the case of Donald Trump's electoral win in the U.S., the AfD triumphed last month in part because many former non-voters were stirred by its virulently racist, anti-immigrant message – and their votes flipped the results.
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After Barcelona Terror Attack, Europe to Confront a More Violent Refugee Crisis
A day after the attack on Las Ramblas, members of the extreme right Spanish group, Falange, took to the streets to protest Islam and the E.U.'s failed immigration policies, and clashed with anti-fascist groups in a sign of the turbulence to come.
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Europe's Quietly Growing Poor Population Is Getting Louder
As of June, the European Commission stated that more than 240 million people now live on the poverty line – around one-third of the E.U. population – with a full 9 percent of citizens suffering from deprivation.
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Anti-Muslim Protestors Clash With Anti-Fascists in Seattle
In Seattle on Saturday, ACT for America, designated an "anti-Muslim hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, held a rally at Seattle City Hall while similar anti-Muslim protests occurred in dozens of cities nationwide.
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United Response to Bomb Attack: There Is No Place for Islamophobia on Manchester’s Streets
We’ll never understand or make sense of such a monstrous act. But what Manchester can, and is, showing is the multicultural passion that makes our city so inclusive and unique. That spirit is what will prevail and conquer.
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Populism of the 1%: Why The Same Billionaires are Behind Trump and Brexit
Those who have profited hand over fist from decades of neoliberalism are now the ones sponsoring the populist, anti-immigration and climate denial regimes on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Feeling the "Pulse of Europe," Tens of Thousands are Protesting To Save the E.U.
"It's that dream of a United States of Europe. People don't seem to know how precious the E.U. is."
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How to Reinvent the European Left
Europeans want to upend politics as usual and the far right is still rising. If the left doesn’t come up with an unusual politics of its own, it will be upended as well.
