Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Trump prosecutors make move to ensure that embassy protectors are convicted

In this period of normalized illegality and attempts at intimidation, we shall not allow the state to move against these courageous activists without resistance from our movements.

Former Honduran police chief charged with trafficking drugs to US

“Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the former chief of the Honduran National Police, allegedly abused his positions in Honduran law enforcement to flout the law and play a key role in a violent international drug trafficking conspiracy.”

How the indivisible movement is fueling resistance to Trump

A group of former congressional staffers put a document online two months ago to help mobilize citizens. To everyone’s surprise, it has grown into a genuine citizens’ movement.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at contentious town hall...

Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?

Obamacare is actually working

The law has flaws, but more Americans are insured than ever – and insurers are still turning a healthy profit.

The Labor Day dreams of black workers

Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond.

How India’s farmers launched a movement against Modi’s farm bills—and won

For now, this victory is a direct blow to WTO, IMF, and World Bank policies, and to the BJP’s privatization agenda.

The progressive movement just scored a huge win in Philly’s DA race

Larry Krasner’s victory was a referendum on Trump as well as on a whole host of issues that predate the president: immigrant rights, the war on drugs and mass incarceration.

Capitalism’s Cult of Human Sacrifice

Manchester, a poor Mexican-American neighborhood in Houston, is just one example of how industrial capitalism is killing us on an altar of profit.

‘A watershed moment’: CA Senate passes historic bill to empower fast food workers

If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs it, one union leader said the measure "will be the most important piece of labor law to pass in decades."