Monday, April 27, 2026

10 arrested as deadline to evacuate Dakota Access pipeline protest camp passes

“Allies around the world acting in solidarity with Standing Rock cannot stop now.”

Facing famine, 20 million people need food, not bombs

Famine in these four countries is avoidable.

If you don’t have good health care, neither should your rep

Until they deliver for the whole public, the public owes them nothing.

Grocery store opens world’s first plastic-free aisle

This comes at a time when unnecessary plastic pollution is a growing global concern that is affecting our oceans, habitats and food chains.

Climate change is a poor people’s issue

Poor and working communities stand to gain the most from protections against corporations that expose them to pollution.

Pandemic may have left over 250 million people with acute food shortages in 2020

As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries.

About one-third of the food Americans buy is wasted, hurting the climate and consumers’ wallets

And when food goes bad, the land, labor, water, chemicals and energy that went into producing, processing, transporting, storing and preparing it are wasted too.

The game-changing promise of an OTC birth control pill

The U.S. appears likely to legalize over-the-counter contraception—a critical step in increasing women’s bodily autonomy and economic independence.

Genuine Corporate Posers

Many people are no longer eating at fast food restaurants, they prefer to dine at upstart, independent outfits. But most of these outlets are owned by corporate fast-food giants. So are McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Pepsi trying to dupe their customers?

Three Republicans vote to kill Senate effort to repeal Obamacare

All it took was three Republicans to vote against the bill. Has this killed Republicans efforts to repeal Obamacare for good?