How a cooperative run by the formerly incarcerated is reshaping Chicago’s food industry
Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Why Isn’t the Media Feeling the Bern?
Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news.
Arizona’s uprising teachers build bridges, not walls
“It’s tough for those in power to penetrate these alliances.”
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 24
Nationwide walkout for sexual assault survivors, Kavanaugh struggles with more questions, undocumented immigrants refuse to testify on domestic abuse, and more.
Trophy hunting – can it really be justified by ‘conservation benefits’?
Killing animals for fun is an activity which divides opinion. It can also be a highly emotive issue, with high profile cases...
‘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.”
‘Take away our poverty, not our children!:’ Poor People’s Campaign caps off 40 days...
"We are sick, we are homeless, we are separated from our families, and we will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!"
Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel’s new transportation scheme is a privatization bonanza
The development is yet another example of Emanuel’s plan to transform Chicago into a city for the wealthy few.
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.
Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass.








