Education: Time for a New Purpose
New methodologies are needed that inculcate true individuality and creative independent thinking. At the heart of the required changes – which need to be both gradual and radical – must be education – formal and non-formal.
Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.
Championing female voters as powerful ‘Supermajority,’ organizers launch movement to fight for women’s agenda
"In many ways, women have been doing all this work – whether it's running their PTA, or organizing around reproductive healthcare – but we haven't been doing it together."
SUNY uses taxpayer dollars to torture kittens in useless experiments
The State University of New York is being sued for refusing to turn over documents about cruel animal experiments.
Media ignore criticism of DHS’s new ‘disinformation’ board—unless it’s from the right
The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”
‘Stay alive, stay at home, organize’: Rev. Barber sets June 20 for Poor People’s...
“We’re not going to just die. We’re going to stand up and fight back.”
2018 update: More evidence that half of Americans are in or near poverty
By any rational definition of poverty, half of our country's households are dealing with it.
Again, the US is a no-vacation nation
Nearly 1-in-4 Americans receive no paid vacation or holidays.
The dangers of white male supremacy
Our culture has shaped the expectation of greatness exclusively around white men by erasing the achievements of women and people of color from our histories.
Nice try, Chris Hedges, but neither Joyce, nor Ulysses offers a relevant political manifesto
Where's proof behind Hedges' hyperbole that James Joyce is especially unique in railing against the "poisons of nationalism and idolatry"—or offers political urgency?