The growing movement to bring back community grief and ritual
A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.
In the search for missing women, neighbors and family members pair drones with Indigenous...
Often, Indigenous communities don’t trust that police will act on reports of violence.
How broadcast networks covered climate change in 2016
The networks failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies, but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial.
Joe Arpaio promoted his GOP Senate candidacy with a publication that denies the Holocaust
The anti-immigrant Joe Arpaio has a long history of racist and corrupt actions.
Little Rock, Arkansas launches program that invests in the city’s homeless population
The program is a “day's work for a day's pay and access to resources that will help them get to the next step to create the life that they want."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 1, 2018
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse, Trump tweaks capital gains to benefit the rich, US deports parents but keeps their children, and more.
Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of...
As Indigenous peoples the world over continue to defend ancestral lands, Indigenous Peoples Day can have important meaning, more than just the renaming of a national holiday.
US Capitol protesters, egged on by Trump, are part of a long history of...
Their participation in the Jan. 6 events, egged on by Trump, reflects a long history in the U.S. of local, state and national political leaders encouraging white supremacist groups to challenge or overthrow democratic governments.
Physicists: 90% chance of human society collapsing within decades
The model developed by the physicists depicts human population growth reaching a maximum level that is undermined by the shrinking of forests, which will not have enough resources left to sustain people.
Who benefits from racism?
Throughout history, the rich have used racism to divide people and thereby entrench themselves.