‘It’s bad for business:’ CEOs speak out against attacks on reproductive rights, abortion bans
"As anti-choice politicians are escalating attacks on these fundamental freedoms we encourage the entire business community to join us in protecting access to reproductive healthcare in the critical months and years to come."
NRA President-elect Oliver North smears Parkland survivors as criminals
“What they did very successfully with a frontal assault, and now intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking, is they confused the American people.”
How corporations plan to use Janus to turn workers against their own unions
A union buster may be coming to your door.
Humanity is getting increasingly serious about enforcing animal rights protections all over the planet
The scene was heart-crushing: 21 dogs, many sick, wounded and infected, on heavy chains or trapped in filthy kennels with no food...
Why is there increasing poverty in America?
We pretend that we are a fair and equal culture. And yet we let rampant greed take over.
As Coasts Flood, Why Isn’t the Corporate Press Asking Candidates About Climate Change?
It is also possible that corporate capitalism, which both runs the candidates and runs the so-called “news” companies, is about as good at dealing with a rapidly changing environment as the dodo was.
What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.
Child separation & prison camps: China’s campaign against Uyghur Muslims is “cultural genocide”
An estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being imprisoned in camps that China claims are “vocational training centers” designed to combat extremism.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Infowars gets banned, U.S. Fish and Wildlife turns against saving the bees, and more.
How wealthy have our super wealthy become?
It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.