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Welcome to our collection of articles dedicated to green politics. As our world grapples with pressing environmental and societal challenges, the green political movement emerges as a beacon of change.

These articles explore core areas of green politics such as: degrowth, demilitarization, union and worker rights, and anti-capitalism.

Discover the nuances of degrowth as we examine strategies to reshape economies, moving away from military and capitalist growth models toward a more balanced, regenerative approach. Explore the imperative of demilitarization, unraveling the environmental and social impacts of excessive military expenditures, and delving into proposals for redirecting resources towards constructive, peace-building endeavors. Anti-capitalism is a key theme, challenging the prevailing economic systems that prioritizes profit over people and the environment. Union and worker rights in politics is another key area. Our articles dissect the green political stance on restructuring economies to prioritize social justice, environmental sustainability, and community well-being.

This thought-provoking content analyzes the intersectionality of these principles, offering insights into how green politics seeks to create a world where ecological responsibility, demilitarization, and anti-capitalist values converge for the betterment of society and the planet.

We hope you enjoy these explorations of the progressive ideals of green politics, providing you with valuable perspectives, informed analyses, and potential solutions to the challenges we face. Stay engaged, informed, and inspired, and let’s pave the way toward a future guided by the principles of degrowth, demilitarization, and anti-capitalism.

20 Years Since Katrina: How the US Refused Cuban Doctorss as New Orleans Drowned

Manolo De Los Santos

Talks about how Cuba offered doctors and other health care personnel when New Orleans was overwhelmed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how the US refused to let them enter the country.

Guns, Gaza, and the Hypocrisy Killing Our Children

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

From Minnesota to Palestine, a reminder that the children are ours, all of them, because that is what morality requires of us.

How a Ritzy LA Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of its Wealth

Nathaniel Rich

Shows that even wealth cannot protect you from environmental destruction.

Israel Is Forcing Parents in Gaza to Watch Their Children Die of Hunger

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

“Imagine looking at your child, and you can’t feed him. You can’t do anything for him.”

Free DC Models Effective Resistance to Trump’s Takeover

Daniel Hunter

Article suggests how we can prepare to counter Trump’s efforts to take over various cities and towns.

Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI

Ella Fassler

In homeschool cooperatives, students learn side by side from one another’s parents — an embodiment of the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.” At For the Culture, parent-teachers introduced Cari and her classmates to the genocide in Gaza and other current events during their weekly sessions, then supported those who wanted to turn the knowledge into action.

The Myth of Conquest: Why Gaza Will Never be Subdued by Israel

Ramzy Baroud

To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying power” and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention. When Israeli forces were ultimately compelled to redeploy from the Gaza Strip in 2005, a direct consequence of the persistent resistance of the Palestinian population there, the United Nations resolutely insisted that the Gaza Strip remained an occupied territory under international law. This position stood in stark contradiction to that of Israel, which conveniently produced its own legal texts that designated Gaza a ‘hostile entity‘ – thus, not an occupied territory.

Time Now to Strike–and Hit Hard

Kim Scipes

Argues that the left needs to develop a plan, and implement it, on flooding Congress people’s offices across the country during this summer’s recess–both Democrats and Republicans–to demand an opening of the Epstein files, an end of aid to Israel, and an end to Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) exports and keeping fossil fuels in the ground, and to show Congress how repulsed we are with Donald Trump’s shenanigans, including his incompetent set of Cabinet “leaders.”

The Collapse of Finnish Right-Wing populism?

Robert Stark

Historic elections reveal deep public dissatisfaction with austerity, scandals, and a fading populist agenda. Local and regional elections on April 13 have delivered an historic defeat to Finland’s ruling right-wing populist party The Finns (Perussuomalaiset), which saw its support almost halved compared to the last local elections. The left-green bloc made significant gains across the country, and in the welfare-responsible regional councils in particular a record number of women will play a decisive role in shaping and implementing social and health care policy.

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