Yearly Archives: 2021
Oil flows through Line 3 as water protectors continue resistance to pipeline
Indigenous activists are still waging a battle in court as oil starts flowing through the controversial Line 3 pipeline.
Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US...
The United States has a history of forced sterilization policies that targeted disabled people, women of color, and those living in poverty.
NYT runs interference for billionaires who don’t want their wealth taxed
Fortunately for them, they’ve got the New York Times running interference.
On America’s residential caste system—and how to abolish it
Are segregated U.S. cities organized as a residential caste system?
For Afghan women, the frightening return of ‘vice and virtue’
The Taliban are going back on their promise to respect women’s rights.
One of the world’s oldest rainforests returns to Indigenous control
The hope is that the most recent handover will provide a model for other groups in Australia's wet tropics hoping to regain control of their traditional lands.
Links from the brink: 8 good environmental news stories you might have missed
Hard work and persistence can pull us back from the brink just as greed and indifference can push us toward it.
Six-month sentence for lawyer who took on Chevron denounced as ‘international outrage’
Conviction of Steven Donziger "perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies."
Media attacked, journalists murdered: Democracy eroded
Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.
From Tucker Carlson to Epik, mainstreaming hate and paranoia for profit
From the Great Replacement theory to anti-mask and anti-vaccination propaganda, the far right is finding niches that allow them to draw ever larger numbers of people to their reactionary, anti-science views.