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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Victory In Landmark Climate Case As Oregon Judge Rules for Future Generations
In what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein called the “most important lawsuit on the planet right now,” 21 plaintiffs under the age of 19 sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.
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Combat Climate Change? There’s an App for That
Now there’s an app for monitoring the carbon footprint of our food choices, and the Melbourne-based climate action group Less Meat Less Heat will have you craning your neck to see what’s on other people’s plates.
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How Wall Street Wounded Denver’s Public Schools
Let me tell you how a state awash in extra money is watching its largest school district die due to lack of funds.
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The Panama Papers: Leaktivism's Coming of Age
The theory that leaking information is an effective form of social protest is being put to the test like never before. It could give rise to capitalism’s greatest crisis yet.
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The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
Leak shows what much of the world's 99% believes – it’s just the tip of a much bigger iceberg.
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San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Mandate Fully Paid Parental Leave
Activists hope new law paves way for more progressive policies in the U.S. – the only developed country that doesn’t guarantee paid maternal or paternal leave.
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#NuitDebout: A Movement Is Growing In France’s Squares
Fed up with inequality, unemployment and labor reforms – and increasingly outraged at the financial and political elite – tens of thousands across France are taking to the streets and the squares.
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Panama Papers Show How Institutional Corruption In UK Is Perpetuating Wealth Inequality
Great Britain is directly implicated in the scandal, with critics citing the hypocrisy of Tories’ hardline rhetoric on tax avoidance while “soft-pedaling reform" of a global system that easily shields wealth from taxation.
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#DemocracySpring Kicks Off With 140-Mile March To Capital
Movement wants big money out of politics – and free and fair elections.
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UK Doctor and Teacher Strikes Show A Powerful Movement Growing Against Austerity
It is uncertain what will happen next as teachers and doctors challenge the government alongside social movements – but it is clear that opposition to Britain's neoliberal moment in history has finally gained momentum.
