Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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2020 Candidates Side With Labor As Strikes Deepen, Extending to Private Sector
Recent strikes in Erie County, Penn., and New England are evidence that workers in the private sector are beginning to exercise their strike muscles again – and reawakening the labor roots in the Democratic Party.
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Chartering Disaster: Trump Admin's Education Priorities 'Asleep at the Wheel'
The federal budget proposal for 2020 includes increased funding to charter schools – even as a recent report shows $1 billion in federal funding went to charters that are now closed, or never even opened in the first place.
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Greta Thunberg at London Climate Protest: "We Will Never Stop Fighting"
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since anti-climate change protests started in the British capital one week ago by the global body Extinction Rebellion.
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Movement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, ‘City of Revolutions’
The Sunrise Movement launched a national tour of U.S. cities on April 18 with a sold-out rally at the Strand Theater in Boston.
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A Growing Citizens' Coalition Brings Environmental Justice Fight To Urban Michigan
Citing rising health concerns and the historic pollution of their community, people are confronting US Ecology's bid to vastly expand fracking wastewater storage facilities in their area.
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A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder
This isn’t your parents’ inequality influenza, but a more virulent strain of extreme wealth disparities. Here's a simple test to determine whether politicians are carrying water for the richest 0.1 percent.
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What Would a Universal Basic Income Mean for America? Stockton Thinks it Has the Answer
As part of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration, for the next year and a half 130 residents of this struggling California city will get $500 every month, with no strings attached.
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Sacramento Teacher Strike is a Warning to #RedForEd Movement Everywhere
Much like other teacher actions that have occurred across the nation, Sacramento teachers are demanding a range of improved conditions – from salary to class size to more school staffing.
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Symbiosis is Different: Why this Revolutionary Network Could Change Anti-Capitalist Politics
"This framework—building popular power outside the governing institutions of our present system, to challenge and displace those institutions through truly democratic ones of our own—is called 'dual power.'"
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Trump-Linked U.S. Christian ‘Fundamentalists’ Pour Millions of ‘Dark Money’ into Europe, Boosting the Far Right
A dozen American groups have poured at least $50 million of dark money into Europe over the last decade, backing "armies" of ultra-conservative lawyers, political activists and far right parties themselves.