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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"Stop Trump" Movement Calls For Biggest Demonstrations in UK History
A coalition of activists, trade unions and Members of Parliament have pledged to hold the “biggest demonstrations in UK history” when Donald Trump makes his state visit to Britain later this year.
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Hate Groups Increase for Second Consecutive Year as Trump Electrifies Radical Right
A new report found that the number of hate groups operating in 2016 rose to 917 – up from 892 in 2015 – and that the most dramatic growth was the near-tripling of anti-Muslim hate groups, from 34 in 2015 to 101 last year.
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Quebec City Mosque Killings Were Fuelled By Trump's and Le Pen's Racist Rhetoric
Alexandre Bissonette was a recent convert to rightwing nationalist ideology following Marine Le Pen's visit to Quebec City in March, and became known online for defending Trump’s nativist, anti-immigrant positions.
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The Wizard of Odds: Reality TV Takes Over the White House in Trumpenstein's America
The media spins the Trump victory as though it originated from “white” pain: the white working (mostly male) pain of being shocked by change, and made to merge into a cultural landscape of earthy tones rather than perpetual beige as far as the eye can see.
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Europe at a Crossroads as Austria Votes Whether To Move Far Right
Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party has a shot to win the presidency and become Austria's first right-wing head of state since the end of World War II.
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Worries Grow As British Government Vows To Scrap Human Rights Act
The Human Rights Act will be replaced with a so-called British Bill of Rights, a controversial manifesto that was written under the former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government.
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Fascism Revisited, Part I: A Cozy Relationship To Capitalism Takes Root
A new brand of fascism and far-right ideology is on the march, with demagogues moving towards power from Austria to the U.S., France to Finland, Greece to Germany.
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Curing A Convenient Amnesia: Racism, Xenophobia and Nationalism In America
It may be an inconvenient and uncomfortable reality that U.S. leaders have systematically spread hate and intolerance – but the fact is nationalism, xenophobia and intolerance reflect our country’s true foundation.
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Austria, and Europe, Must Decide If Fascism Is Once More A Political Status Quo
Far-right parties capitalizing on anti-E.U. sentiment include the True Finns, the openly fascist Golden Dawn in Greece, the Sweden Democrats, and Hungary's Jobbik Party, whose neo-Nazi platform included creating detention camps for Roma people.
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Green Candidate's Narrow Presidential Victory Remakes Austrian Politics
Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent candidate backed by the Austrian Green Party, fought neck and neck with far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer and scratched out a narrow victory in the historic election.
