Friday, February 20, 2026

20 photos: My seven months of living at Standing Rock

The life that we have built here has taught many how to live a large-scale sustainable, decolonized, anticapitalist lifestyle.

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.

Poorly protected postal workers are catching COVID-19 by the thousands. it’s one more threat...

More than 50,000 workers have taken time off for virus-related reasons, slowing mail delivery.

Hundreds of cancer cases against Monsanto set to go to trial, federal judge rules

Monsanto now faces numerous lawsuits by farmers, landscapers and consumers.

How the Federal Government can protect workers on the front lines of the COVID-19...

Instead, people on the front lines have to fight for their own health and safety even while they care for their patients.

New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we know

Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.
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Delta variant linked to COVID surges amid slow US vaccination rates as global inequity...

“Our expectation should be, by July, this will be the dominant variant.”

Chemical spill closes four Lake Michigan beaches

Health groups are pushing for federal regulators to set national drinking water standards.

Trump wellness programs would gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions

The ACA’s pre-existing condition protections are among the law’s more popular and important elements.

Why I kneeled before Standing Rock elders and asked for forgiveness

“We fought you. We took your land. We signed treaties that we broke … But we’ve come to say that we are sorry.”