A public bank for Los Angeles? City Council puts it to the voters
California legislators exploring the public bank option may be breaking not just from Wall Street, but from the Federal Reserve.
Meet the Two Journalists Facing Jail Time for Covering Pipeline Protests
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and documentarian Deia Schlosberg have been arrested for committing journalism.
Why Bolivian indigenous movements draw their power from oral history
Despite defeats both political and economic, despite everything, the “ayllus” endure.
Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder helped lead 2016 anti-DAPL uprising
“I don’t understand why America doesn’t understand how important water is. So we have no choice. We have to stand.”
Limiting Trump’s screen time isn’t ‘censorship,’ it’s journalism
If journalists are limited to allowing politicians to say whatever they want on-air, then asking questions that are never answered, how to decide when this is less reporting the news than feeding the troll?
‘It’s also about reclaiming our time’: California school will cover up mural depicting slaves...
"It's also about reclaiming our time, reclaiming our space. It's about black and indigenous people ... it's a form of reparations."
Hollywood executives bring industry to halt rather than pay workers a fair price
Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry.
How hypocrites in high places have contributed to the riots in the streets
A decades-long wealth grab by the richest Americans has left millions of Americans on the brink of poverty — and poverty begets violence.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on NATO military spending & avoiding Cold War nuclear catastrophe with...
“I would argue that the bipartisan establishment consensus is bankrupt. … We believe you can have secure elections and avoid nuclear catastrophe.”
Using white privilege to ban guns
A gun control organization run by women of color is putting white women on the frontlines of demanding a ban on guns.