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What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?

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To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.

The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”

Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs

Workers, people of color, Native peoples, and the poor have borne and will continue to bear the brunt of this crisis if we don’t find the means to avert it. We must forge alliances that can fight for climate justice, a sustainable, resilient future.

For many on the left, getting rid of Trump is insufficient. Victory must be accompanied by fundamental political change

The U.S. labor movement is under siege by powerful anti-union forces, including the Trump administration. But with approval of unions at a 15-year high, and a wave of labor militancy on the rise, working people have plenty to celebrate.

Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal proposal includes the United States moving to 100 percent public ownership of our power grid.