Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 11
Native American tribes sue Trump over Keystone XL. Japan aims to overthrow whaling ban, and more.
Trump administration revives public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from the US
The Trump administration is as likely to succeed in communicating what it wants to lower-level officials as was the Nazi-era State Department.
The Catonsville nine, 50 years later
"What are your future plans?" "Resistance!"
Journalism as Subversion
Global capitalism erases the world's stories and histories. It seeks to shut out our voices, hopes and dreams by replacing the actual and the real with fake and false. Is its ultimate goal to create a vast historical amnesia?
Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free speech, climate action
As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.
Media get the South all wrong, so ‘movement journalists’ are stepping in
Project South wants to tell stories of grassroots power in a way that avoids the stereotypes outsiders bring.
While state leaders make war, Spanish children march for peace
On this thirtieth march for international peace in commemoration of the day that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, the children sang “No to War,” “Yes to Peace,” “Save the Children,” “Friendship Yes, Violence No.”
Murdoch paper gives away the game: Cuomo is on their side
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decade in office has been marked by resisting taxation of the wealthy and an adversarial stance against public sector labor unions.
Billie Jean King, foremother
And still in the game...
Grandmothers bring food and comfort to asylum seekers at bus stations
“Sometimes it is necessary to do the right thing, to heal a broken world.”