How New Yorkers stood up to Amazon and won
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
Lobbyist for Dakota Access formerly led army’s “restore Iraqi oil” program
“The administration seems to be buying time to maintain the status quo and profits for fossil fuel investors.”
Waiting for the barbarians
There will be rebels. They will live in the shadows. The state will have little tolerance of them. They will be our hope.
California just blocked police body cam use of face recognition
Our democracy gives us the power as a society to reject surveillance that is invasive, discriminatory, and wide-reaching. We will continue to use that power to create a society free of face surveillance.
Study shows wealth inequality does make a difference in how long you will live
In the UK and US, being rich can add almost a decade of healthy living to a person’s life.
May Day general strike, a strong beginning to an ongoing campaign
Despite the pandemic, advocacy continues. We need to change the political narrative.
The Left needs to be a movement, not a bunch of lobbyists
We need to focus on big demands and big issues that benefit all but the ruling elites and that will fundamentally change the way the country operates.
The scary truth is many senate Dems share the same corporate agenda as Amy...
She’s exactly the kind of judge corporate donors support.
Changing the way the military handles sexual assault
Or how not to leave the fox guarding the henhouse.
Woman Pleads Guilty to Torturing and Enslaving Disabled People
Linda Weston pled guilty on Wednesday for stealing over $200,000 in Social Security benefits from disabled people. She and her co-conspirators held disabled adults and their children captive for roughly a decade.