Yearly Archives: 2021
How corporations crush the working class
The resulting power imbalance has spawned near-record inequalities of income and wealth, corruption of democracy by big money, and the abandonment of the working class.
How persistent student organizing forced one of the largest public universities to divest from...
Over eight years, University of Michigan students led bold direct actions, continually recruited new students and forged ties with regents to keep $1 billion from the fossil fuel industry.
Food apartheid: Racialized access to healthy affordable food
"Food desert" has become a common term to describe low-income communities—often communities of color—where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no grocery stores.
Retired black NYPD detective: Derek Chauvin trial highlights ‘race-based’ police brutality problem
The trial is putting a spotlight on “the disproportionate killing of Black people by police” in the United States.
Effects of domestic violence during Covid on children mind-set
I hope and wish that all do our very best to protect our kids and children from going through such experiences in the first place.
Largest beef giant promises to go deforestation-free by 2035
“JBS has just promised at least 14 more years of forest destruction.”
Biden promised to end standardized testing in schools—it was never going to be easy
In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.
Six ways Chevron imperils climate, human rights, and racial justice
These six examples illustrate a stunning array of corporate abuse, deception, and misconduct by one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations.
Manchin under fire for threatening to block infrastructure bill over corporate tax hike
“I think we need a grassroots movement that makes it clear to Joe Manchin... that the progressive agenda is what the American people want,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta nearly caused ‘another deepwater horizon catastrophe’ in Gulf of Mexico
“The Biden administration’s January 27 Executive Order temporarily pausing oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters needs to be made permanent.”