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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Citizen Trump: How an American Caudillo Came to Dominate the 2016 Presidential Race
The religions and ethnicities may have changed, but the core nativism that the former Celebrity Apprentice host promotes is much the same: a full-throated call for a simpler, more ignorant time that only ever existed in the imagination.
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Anti-Refugee Activism On the Rise In Germany As Far Right Violence Looms
After welcoming more than a million refugees last year, Germany is facing a xenophobic backlash — and incendiary language often inspires demonstrators to put their thoughts into actions.
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When Your World Comes Apart: An Immigrant's Story
Being a refugee means being stripped of identity, stripped of all human rights, stripped of any kind of ownership, and coming to the realization that you do not even own your life anymore.
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The Revolt of the Anxious Class Has Just Begun
For years I’ve listened to their growing anger – in union halls and bars, in coal mines and beauty parlors, on the Main Streets and byways of the washed-out backwaters of America.
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Acronym TV [50] - Trump Jumps the Shark, Paris Climate Summit Ends With Protests
Activists are preparing for massive 12.12.12. protests (Dec. 12 at 12pm) as the 21st UN climate summit concludes, in the words of Chris Hedges, “with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms.”
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German Businesses See Migrants As Rich Opportunity For National Renewal
"Refugees present a chance and a challenge for us in Germany," said Thomas Sperveslage, a personnel manager at a construction company, and "we should do everything we can to help people integrate and adapt."
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A New Welcome: Activists Launch Home Placement Service for Refugees In Germany and Austria
Through a new organization called Refugees Welcome, more than 1,000 Germans and Austrians have offered to share their houses with refugees who otherwise would be consigned to overcrowded asylum shelters.
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Is It Racism, Cynicism – Or Both – That Catapulted U.K. Independence Party to Populist Success?
UKIP's newly elected James Carver claims the party is getting support from minority communities, young people and women, people the media said they could never count as supporters.
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Xenophobia in San Francisco: Why Are Muslim Schoolgirls Still Getting Bullied?
A December study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations showed 50 percent of Muslim school kids in California face bullying.
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Europe's Other Crisis: The Rise of the "Respectable" Far Right
As much as we need economic alternatives, we also need to confront the racism and xenophobia prevalent across Europe.
