Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Green New Deal XXI: The Rich Are Killing Our Planet. Make Super-Wealth History
We need to reverse policies that make the super-rich even richer, and create a narrative to challenge their wealth and devastating power, which are inextricably linked.
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Green New Deal XX: A Just Green Future Needs Universal Basic Income
From California to Kenya, and from Finland to Canada and India, trials with Universal Basic Income are having immediate positive effects. Here’s why UBI is an economic solution.
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GND 15: Chile's Popular Political Revolution Offers Lessons Far Beyond its Shoreline
To transform the world, winning elections cannot be enough: real change requires building power through all levels of society, then using that power as a platform to change the rules of the game.
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Green New Deal XIII: From Kansas City to Estonia, Free Public Transport Is the Future
To reverse the ongoing climate catastrophe we must rethink transit, making it clean – and free to use – for everyone.
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Green New Deal XII: A Green Transformation Must Decolonise Turtle Island & Beyond
California's first nations applied wild land horticulturalism to increase food and other production through pruning, seed dispersal, coppicing and burning. Meanwhile, the invading Europeans wrongly thought the lands pristine, unaffected by humans.
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The U.S. Can Go Big on Infrastructure Spending If It Drops Its Fear of Deficits
Should Biden wish to be remembered as the next iteration of FDR, he’ll need to reject old ways of thinking about spending and embrace Modern Monetary Theory, putting forth a plan that’s just as, if not more ambitious than, the original New Deal.
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Green New Deal XI: Costa Rica Demonstrates One Pathway Toward a Rewilded World
This is the eleventh installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises.
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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police
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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Green New Deal, Part IV: Britain's Snap Election Offers a Life or Death Choice
Britain's fast approaching General Election on Dec. 12 represents a life or death decision for the country's two major parties – and, of significant more consequence, for the planet. Voters can back Labour's Green New Deal and act on the climate emergency, or they can elect the Conservative Party pushing an ever more destructive form of capitalism.
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Renewables Against Fascism: How A Green New Deal Can Beat the Far Right
Enacting a Green New Deal in rural Europe, old factories would be transformed into community solar workshops and abandoned buildings would be converted into community wind farms.
