Saturday, May 18, 2024

California governor proposes nation’s longest paid family leave

Newsom and his administration proposed six months paid family leave, the nation's longest if approved.

Reopening day 2020?

Big-time spectator sports are the last things we need...

Nonviolent American Revolution 2.0

Happy Interdependence Day. May we unite and find a new American freedom and justice for all with a peaceful revolution replacing violent values with those honoring and respecting all humankind. 

White allies, let’s be honest about decolonization

Nobody can claim to be an ally if their agenda is to prevent their own future dystopias through actions that also preserve today’s Indigenous dystopias.

Burning books (or rather book companies)

Think of this as the modern capitalist version of burning books, though as with those fossil-fuel companies, it is, in reality, more like burning the future.

CNN Records Reporter Telling Debate Focus Group What To Say

Was the focus group being coached?
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How Cuba beat the pandemic: From developing new vaccines to sending doctors overseas to...

For decades, Cuba has heavily invested in its medical and pharmaceutical system, in part because of the six-decade-old U.S. embargo.
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7 ways 2020 has exposed America

We need to reimagine a political and economic system that values humanity and builds prosperity for every American. Let’s get to work.

How Consumer Culture Is Killing Citizenship

We live in a society where market values spread without limit, in which we are branding and selling ourselves along with everything else, including public office. How do we stop it?

This system is killing us

It's time to recognize that when violence explodes out of nowhere, time and again, and at such a cost – violence is the system, violence courses through its veins.