March for Our Lives: What you need to know
On Saturday, March 24th, hundreds of thousands of people will descend on the U.S. Capitol in a march along Pennsylvania Avenue, and NationofChange will join them.
Former NY police chief charged and 3 officers suspended
“It appears that GPD responding officers and others may not have responded appropriately.”
The Economy We Want Starts With a Constitutional Amendment
A more democratic and equal election system is the first step toward a more democratic and equal economy.
Poor People’s Campaign announces ‘season of nonviolent direct action’ targeting US Senate
‘If our actions result in the system believing it has to arrest us, then so be it. Civil disobedience is a badge and banner we will proudly wear,” said Rev. William Barber.
Spending a night in the Concord jail when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
On the evening of April 4, 1968, an hour or so after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, I was in a jail cell in Concord, Mass., writing a freshman paper about King, Gandhi and Thoreau.
Humanitarian Imperialism? All but Forgotten, South Sudan Unravels
A South Sudan that can’t guarantee basic rights to its citizens isn’t worthy of celebration, let alone international recognition.
Supreme Court has set a date to hear Mississippi’s abortion case
“The fate of Roe v. Wade and legal abortion is on the line.”
Student loan giant’s lost paperwork results in thousands of dismissed loans
The lost paperwork is further evidence that the loan-industry complex is disinterested in acting on behalf of their student-borrowers.
Protests begin in DC after motion to halt Dakota Access is denied
Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline company that owns Dakota Access, has already been drilling under Lake Oahe for weeks.
Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to be) for Everyone
Why do we encourage our young people through a single funnel called a four-year college education? It’s time we stop pressuring every young person to go to college and, instead, offer an alternative route into the middle class.