Yearly Archives: 2016
Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation
Protesters, especially students, are marching in solidarity to protest the recent election of Donald Trump as our next POTUS.
Bernie Sanders responds to Trump’s victory
When it comes to the policies that Trump has hinted at that would be “racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environmental,” Sanders vows to “vigorously oppose him.”
It can’t happen here (but it just did)
Now we all stand on the precipice — of aggressive nationalism, of ugly prejudice, of climate change, of despair.
Trump’s presidency, the demise of the major parties, and the need for a new...
It’s on all of us on the left, and in the rest of the Democratic base to pick up the pieces and to build a movement of resistance and a new political party of the left to fight for real progressive change and real democracy.
If Bernie won democratic primary, would we now be looking at a Sanders presidency?
Would the results of Election 2016 have been different had the race been between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?
Bank backing pipeline launches own investigation into treatment of Standing Rock Sioux
$460 million in credit is at stake for the Dakota Access and Bakken pipeline as Norway’s largest bank announces its own “fact-based” evaluation of indigenous rights abuses.
5 big Wins, 2 big losses on key eco-ballot initiatives
An energy and big business-backed state constitutional amendment passed in Colorado, while a controversial carbon tax initiative in Washington went down to defeat.
How the rest of the world is reacting to Trump’s victory
Hint: it’s pretty much as you’d expect.
Hillary Clinton didn’t break the glass ceiling, but these female lawmakers did
The 115th United States Congress will have the highest percentage of women legislators in its history.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses re-election
Responsible for costing Maricopa County million of dollars in civil rights violation lawsuits, Arpaio can soon finally stop calling himself America’s toughest sheriff.