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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88% of Congress On Gas Industry Payroll As Campaign Donations Hit Record Level
A new report shows politicians' campaign cash from the natural gas industry has soared 231% in states that frack, and more than doubled even in the states that don't. Fact: seven of eight U.S. Congress members are on the gas industry's payroll.
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Fast Food Workers Strike Over Low Wages In Nationwide Protests
Thousands of low wage workers went on strike across 100 cities through the day, including Boston, Detroit, New York, Oakland, Los Angeles and St. Louis, signaling the growing clamor for action on income equality.
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Moving Far Right, Google Funds Grover Norquist, Heritage Action, ALEC, Anti-Gov Groups
Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its “don’t be evil” motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers.
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Is Afghan President Rejecting U.S. Security Pact Due to Mysterious Civilian Killings in Wardak Province?
Despite local protests, outrage from human rights organizations and the urging of the Afghan government, the U.S. has chosen not to cooperate with national investigations into civilian deaths in Wardak province that may amount to war crimes.
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E.U. Imposes Record €1.7 Billion Fines on Major International Banks Over Rate-Rigging
The fines issued by the European Commission mark the latest to be levied on banks and financial institutions for making profits or masking their problems by fraudulently rigging the rates that reflect the cost of lending money to each other.
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Revealed: ALEC Seeks Legislation to Punish Solar Power Users as "Freeriders"
The alliance of corporations and ultra-right activists known as the American Legislative Exchange Council is attempting to penalize homeowners who install solar panels on their houses and to block clean energy developments across the U.S.
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The Climate Movement Needs to Stop "Winning"
I am from an impacted community in East Texas, home to oil and gas industry, on the southern route of the Keystone XL pipeline. My community will not "win" on climate and this idea delegitimizes the extraction industry impacts we already face.
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How Defending Private Intelligence Firm Collaborators Screws Grassroots Activists
Collaborating with such an insidious firm is bad enough, but defending that collaborator in spite of all the evidence that’s been made public is irresponsible and potentially hazardous to activists in the long run.
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Under Global Shadow of Big Brother, Journalism Must Light Up the Political Sky
In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. What governments want is fake journalism, deferring to official storylines and respectful of authority even when it is illegitimate.
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First Nations Protesters Escalate Opposition to Fracking in New Brunswick
Anti-fracking demonstrators set tires ablaze to block a New Brunswick highway Monday in a fiery response to a judge’s decision to extend an injunction limiting their protests against a Texas-based shale gas exploration company.
