500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Farmers need a $12 billion bailout to offset Trump's tariffs, Ivanka Trump dumps fashion brand, new emails show the lies of Sarah Sanders, and more.
Sanders calls for DOJ investigation into Israeli killing of American activist Ayşenur Eygi
Senator Bernie Sanders demands a DOJ investigation into the killing of Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Eygi by Israeli forces, highlighting a pattern of impunity for the deaths of American citizens in the occupied West Bank.
The Bumblebee Could Be the Next Endangered Species
With a 90 percent population decline in the last two decades, the rusty patched bumblebee must be protected by the Endangered Species Act to survive.
How Trump’s immigration dragnet harms all US workers
In all, the nation has so far lost more than a million foreign-born workers amid Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Farmworkers Bill of Rights
Passage of the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices, also being called the Farmworkers Bill of Rights, by the New York State Legislature at...
Empowering the people: More, not less democracy is the answer
We should always worry when elites begin to tell us that there’s too much democracy.
Time to rein in the super rich
The voice of the people needs to be heard. Not through violence but consistent demand en mass.
“Weaponized and racialized”: Police departments use COVID-19 to target black & brown communities
Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City’s enforcement measures during the pandemic.
Philadelphia DA vows to arrest federal officers if they assault protestors
“Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office.”