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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Protests Grow in Britain to Tax Corporations, the Rich, to Fund Free Education
Lord Browne, the former chairman of BP during the Gulf of Mexico disaster and current chair of fracking company Cuadrilla, pressed for steep cuts to British education while oil and gas companies avoided paying taxes and schools got corporatized.
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Revealed: 2012 Graduates Have Highest-Ever Student Debt
College graduates who borrowed for bachelor’s degrees granted in 2012 have an average student loan debt of $29,400, the highest average student loan debt ever on record. Overall, 70% of college seniors graduated with debt in 2012.
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NSA Can Hack and Spy on Any iPhone Any Time
Everything you do on your iPhone may be open to NSA snooping, but Apple is claiming ignorance.
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The Shocking Redistribution of Wealth Since the Financial Crisis
In just five years, the richest 1 percent has gained $6.1 trillion, while the average American family's net worth has barely recovered.
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Did you buy your Occupy Wall Street Poster at Wal-mart?
In a tone-deaf display of irony, Walmart - which refuses to pay its employees a living wage - is selling posters depicting the movement that fought everything the retail behemoth stands for.
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Inside the Corporatocracy: The 2013 Money-In-Politics Index
$400 million in Congressional campaign donations. Half the Washington workday spent in fundraising. 210 new SuperPACs. Here are some of the key numbers and trends tracking the influence of money in politics over the past year.
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Hedges: Overthrow the Speculators and Build Public Banks
We can wrest back control of our economy and our political system from corporate speculators with local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
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Preparing for the Burst: What Need to Know About the Zombie Bubble
About 75% of all Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck. And it gets worse from there.
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This Christmas, Demand for Food Stamps Soars as Cuts Sink In and Shelves Empty
More working Americans are lining up at emergency food banks and going hungry as cuts to programs take effect.
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Talking Trash and Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Chicago's Garbage Guru
Elise Zelechowski, executive director of the ReBuilding Exchange, on the need to rethink the waste stream, the economic and environmental impacts of creative reuse, and how making trash visible is key to making it manageable.
