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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Acronym TV - U.S. Bombs Doctors Without Borders Hospital – No End In Sight For War in Afghanistan
The United States marks the 15th anniversary of its military invasion and occupation of Afghanistan this week, with no end in sight.
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Acronym TV - How and Why Mass Killing Has Become Routine
How can we pretend to be mystified about gun violence within our borders when violence as a concept and as actual hardware is the #1 U.S. export?
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Acronym TV - Whole Foods To Stop Using Prison Labor, but 21st Century-Style Plantations Grow
The health food giant partners with Colorado Correctional Industries, which boasted in its 2014 annual report that the company's “success is completely dependent on the business savvy of our staff and the dedication of our inmate workforce.”
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Acronym TV - Obama and Putin Agree: Forge Peace in Syria by Waging War
At the UN on Monday, a scene not unlike a heavy-weight boxing match in Vegas played out, as the rich and famous gathered ringside to watch a long anticipated slugfest between two titans that could very well have been fixed.
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Act Out! [31] - Fasting, fracking, Medicare, money in politics & the Pope
This week, from med students to female priests, fasters to the monopoly man, we've got a helluva lineup – first up, let's talk Medicare and why it shouldn't be so ageist.
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Acronym TV - Can Pope Francis’s Climate Justice Campaign Exorcize Capitalism?
As a recovering Catholic, I watched Pope Francis's historic six-day visit to the U.S. with mixed feelings.
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Uruguay's José Mujica: "The Routine, For Anyone Setting Out To Change the World"
José Mujica, a former Tupamaros freedom fighter in the 1960s and 70s, served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 – and here discusses a philosophy of life focused on sobriety, learning learn to live with what is necessary and fairest.
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Acronym TV - Bill Maher Pushing a Separate But Equal Doctrine On Muslims
Says if we need to “take extra precautions” with people who look Muslim.
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Act Out! [30] - Chris Hedges, Klima Kamps, and Kevin Gosztola on a shadow proof government
This week, Chris Hedges offers up some historical rebellion so we understand where we came from and where we're headed.
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Act Out! [29] - Occupy the Senate, TPP free zones & our plastic lives
This week, Margaret Flowers thinks it's about fucking time we got some more activists into the halls of the mighty – from occupying the streets to occupying Congress.
