This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Hurricane Katrina
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Act Out! [127] - The Bigger Disasters After Natural Disasters
This week on Act Out! Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc even as the storm has died – we take a look at the capitalist machine that not only worsens storms but orchestrates the aftermath – letting history be our guide.
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Why Privatization Won’t Cure New Orleans’s Race Problem
Privatization advocates contend that Katrina brought essential reforms to Louisiana’s education system – but the facts tell a different story, as black residents report they live in a city that has yet to recover.
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Why Detroit's Water Crisis Is A Wake-Up Call To All Americans
We cannot credibly advocate for human rights abroad while failing to protect them at home – and the denial of water to Detroiters raises poignant questions about America’s ever-growing inequality.
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Unions Gear Up for Climate Mega-March
With 400,000 members and 85,000 retirees, SEIU 1199 is among the biggest unions to sign up so far for the People's Climate March in New York in September.
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Climate Change and How We Write About It
Those who write about climate change face a banquet of awful riches.
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Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
There's no conspiracy underway to destroy Earth. UN delegates inside the Warsaw climate conference, shirking their obligations to us and future generations, are simply following the logic of a system contingent on endless growth in the interest of profit.
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Welcome to Commonomics: Learning to Build Local, Self-Reliant Economies
When it comes to sustainability and localism, people excluded from policymaking often have the most innovative ideas for building strength.
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Cashing in on Catastrophe: How to Stop the Climate Crisis Profiteers
Rather than burying their heads in the sands, political and business leaders are maintaining the pretense to tackle climate change while actually focusing instead on how to manage its impacts—through militarization-—in the interests of elites.
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The Time in Between: Waiting After Katrina and Sandy
On the 8th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, families across New York and New Jersey are asking some of the same questions that plagued Gulf Coast residents, namely: When can I go home?
