There is a plan in my state of Illinois that can and should be replicated everywhere across America. Anyone who cares can contact representatives wherever they live and ask them to promote this novel idea. We can all post it on social media, and send it to local newspapers, radio, and TV stations. In less […]
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The mainstream media is a propaganda arm that puts out narratives beneficial to an owner class of our society. It doesn’t matter who the media represents. It could be the Democratic Party or the Republican Party interests determined by the owner class. Either way that you slice it, the news outlets are owned by powerful
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The American fossil fuel industry is a sinking ship, and its workers need to ask themselves what will come next. The industry was already deeply in debt even before the Covid-19 crisis, and the current drop in crude prices will lead to a wave of firms claiming bankruptcy. This drastic reduction of fossil fuel
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One of my quarantine binges has been Netflix anime in general, but recently I got a notification that Parasyte was now on Netflix, and even though I’d seen it before I decided that it would be well worth a second watch. And boy was I not disappointed. It’s a 24 episode examination of the limits
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An entire lifetime ago, Martin Luther King Jr said that “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” This is self-evident: lack of justice creates upheaval, destroying peace; and when there is a lack of peace, injustice is bound to arise. As anger about police brutality has boiled
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Amid mass protest and dissent in the US of late, partially due to decades of rampant unchecked police brutality, there’s been an alarming call to defund and/or “abolish the police”, and frankly, it has many suburbanite white folks in a panic, envisioning cartoon burglar rapists lurking in the bushes, waiting for the last few cops
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Real Progressives and Real Progress in Action invite you to watch our June National Outreach Call with special guest Robert Hockett. Bob Hockett is always involved in exciting things. In the National Outreach Call, he talked about his work developing plans for cities and states to make use of the new Fed facilities, and what
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The issues facing the transgender community are complex and require robust, creative, people-centered political solutions. These solutions may scare those people who believe in keeping government spending low, but are necessary to protect ALL Americans, including transgender Americans.
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