Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The national prison strike is over. Now is the time prisoners are most in...

The fact is that men and women behind bars are in most in danger in the days, weeks and months after they have dared to protest.

When profit drives us, community suffers

We evolved to be connected to nature and to one another, but our exploitative global economy is severing those relations.
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Immigrants seeking shelter after Hurricane Florence fear deportation as FEMA shifts funds to ICE

The Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA’s budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations.
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Ten years since economic collapse sparked Occupy Wall Street, the Cooperative Movement is surging

“I think … we recognize we really haven’t done anything serious to deal with the causes of this crash.”

Facebook is letting job advertisers target only men

A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 18

Who is Christine Blasey Ford, catastrophic and historic flooding, Trumps sets up tariffs, and more.
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As Blasey Ford alleges Kavanaugh assaulted her, will Senate repeat mistakes made with Anita...

She at first expected her story to be kept confidential, but changed her mind after it leaked. She now says she is willing to testify about her experience.

Why labor is holding its applause for Michigan’s latest ‘workers’ rights’ measures

Even as they passed the measures, lawmakers made it clear that they did so not to enshrine them in law, but to create an opportunity to water them down later.

The aftershocks of the economic collapse are still being felt

“…the political fallout of the global financial crisis is only just getting started. The real confrontation, it seems, is yet to come.”

The Donald in Wonderland

Down the financial rabbit hole with President Trump.