Bernie releases statement on Amazon minimum wage increase
“What Mr. Bezos has done today is not only enormously important for Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of employees, it could well be a shot heard around the world."
Share the wealth? We can start now – here’s how
Corporations have, in effect, become inequality’s single most powerful engine. We need to slow that engine down.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, October 2
Amazon adopts $15 minimum wage, California bans animal-tested cosmetics and becomes first state to require women on corporate boards, and more.
America’s great strike waves have shaped the country. We can unleash another.
Erik Loomis’ "A History of America in Ten Strikes" is a powerful reminder of the need for worker militancy.
Fossil fuel divestment debates on campus spotlight the societal role of colleges and universities
Divestment debates are forcing colleges and universities to reconsider how to contribute to a more resilient and sustainable future.
Ex-Senate aide: Judge Brett Kavanaugh has lied every time he has testified under oath
Critics claim that Kavanaugh has repeatedly committed perjury by lying during his testimony about his drinking habits, the content of his yearbook and a spate of other topics.
California bans animal-tested cosmetics from the market
“I am proud that California is the first state in the nation to take a stand against cruel cosmetic animal testing.”
America’s bullies
In recent years America has become a culture of bullying – the wealthier over the poorer, CEOs over workers, those with privilege and pedigree over those without, the whiter over the browner and blacker, men over women.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, October 1
Trump accused of rigging FBI's Kavanaugh probe, Sanders demands FBI investigate whether Kavanaugh committed perjury, Las Vegas strip to go dark on one-year anniversary of worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and more.
5 people died from eating lettuce, but Trump’s FDA still won’t make farms test...
The FDA’s lack of urgency dumbfounds food safety scientists.