Friday, March 29, 2024

Reporting on global crises like Amazon fires, media need to focus on who’s fighting...

It doesn’t matter so much how many reports corporate media write; if the same people stay at the center of them, the story won’t change.

Instead of buying guns or hoarding food, let’s feed each other

COVID-19 will change us. It’s just a question of how.

‘We’re still going to be making sure people have access to abortions they want...

CounterSpin interview with Jill Heaviside and Oriaku Njoku on reproductive rights assaults.

Pandemic crisis and recession can spark a fight for real change in the US

After getting $600/week in jobless pay, going back to work for $7.25 sucks.
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May Day People’s Strike! Target, Amazon, Instacart workers demand safe conditions & pandemic relief

“The corporations and the government are willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of us. We have to put people before profits.”
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‘Seattle is not for sale:’ Voters rebuke Amazon, re-electing Socialist Kshama Sawant

The re-election victory “has been a major repudiation, not only of Amazon and of Jeff Bezos himself, as the richest man in the world, but also it has been a referendum on the vision for Seattle.”

American Journalism’s Ideology: Why the ‘Liberal’ Media Is Fundamentalist

If we were to step back from the diversionary label of journalism and evaluate the deeper ideological commitments that shape mainstream news, what are they really? Robert Jensen evaluates an organization’s coverage of environmental news.

Fool me once…

This current pandemic, a worldwide phenomenon, is destroying both people's lives and the economies throughout the world.

Hope and Wonder Amidst the Misery

British artist and writer Benjamin Crème has been traveling the world preaching to anyone who would listen that Maitreya, the World Teacher, is out there gradually emerging into public view. The story is an extraordinary message of hope.

27 U.S. Governors Refuse to Accept Refugees Fleeing Violence in Syria

In the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris, governors of at least 27 U.S. states have said they will not accept Syrian refugees. Hear the reaction from Roula Allouch, national board chair of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.