Don’t Stop the Revolution: The Sanders Movement After Orlando
This is the most progressive Democratic platform in history, but only because millions of people demanded it – with their votes and their activism. More activism is needed now.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 27
DNC strips superdelegates of power, 70% of Americans support Medicare for All, John McCain dies, and more.
How keeping workers safe benefits employers
Companies are beginning to understand that creating safe working environments bring various benefits aside from protecting profits.
Judge Dismisses Riot Charges Against Journalist Amy Goodman
“This is a complete vindication of my right as a journalist to cover the attack on the protesters, and of the public’s right to know what is happening with the Dakota Access pipeline.”
An All-American Slaughter
What’s new in all this isn’t the gangs themselves, but how much deadlier they’ve become in recent years.
Former deputies sentenced to prison for beating mentally ill man
Branum and Brunsting were each found guilty of conspiracy to violate civil rights, deprivation of civil rights with bodily injury, and falsification of records for preparing reports that tried to justify their use of force against the victim.
The real Standing Rock victory is this: “Inevitable” is not what it used to...
The whole pipeline fiasco was a more appropriate story for the 19th century instead of the 21st. Now, the timing is ideal for a new beginning: #HealNorthDakota
Obama “actively” pondering end of dormant Muslim surveillance scheme, ahead of Trump
“The program was fundamentally flawed in its false assumption that people of a particular religion or nationality pose a greater national security risk and should be subject to racial profiling.”
Sowing division, reaping lives
Our work, if we are serious about making America great, is to repair racial disparities, not worsen them.
Michael Moore urges Trump critics to participate in ‘100 Days of resistance’
“It’s important that everybody go there. This will have an effect.”