Sunday, May 19, 2024

A fairy tale from 2050

Donald Trump and the triumph of antipolitics.

Big victory in fight to protect California’s coast from offshore fracking

“This is a big victory in the fight to protect California’s coast from offshore fracking’s toxic chemicals.”

GOP Health care bill dies once again after two more Republicans withdraw their support

Senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee just put the nail in the coffin.
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Bernie Sanders: “We’re fighting for our future”

“We’re fighting for the future of this planet, for our kids and grandchildren. And to do your best, you’ve got to be involved in the political process.”

Eugene Debs and the kingdom of evil

"If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light.”

California Gov. Jerry Brown is backing a climate bill full of giveaways to polluters

Regulators say the measure would make it impossible to meet the state’s greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030.

How movements can succeed in the face of government repression

Rather than seeing and treating soldiers and police as the “enemy,” nonviolent movements should find creative ways to engage them and to draw many of them to the side of the movement.
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Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell speaks out before jail time for peaceful anti-fracking protest

Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell and Pramilla Malick are going to jail today for their nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant that uses fracked gas in Orange County, New York.

4 people every week were murdered while protecting the environment in 2016

The killings of land defenders are growing and spreading.