Amazon’s Black Friday fiasco: over 1000 workers rebel in historic pay dispute strike
As Black Friday sales surged, Amazon faced an unprecedented labor revolt. Over a thousand workers across the globe downed tools in a landmark strike, challenging the retail giant on wages and working conditions in a historic show of worker solidarity.
Misty Snow Makes History as first Transgender Senate Nominee
The 30-year-old resident of Salt Lake City used a progressive platform to run, inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders.
U.S. Town Unites to Successfully Stop Nestle From Drilling On Their Land
This town’s residents just showed Nestle they’re not backing down against corporate greed.
Secretly approved in Alaska, will LNG trains soon appear in rest of U.S.?
“As if outdated rail cars carrying volatile crude oil didn't pose enough of a danger to the tens of millions of Americans who live and work near our country's rail lines."
Obama should have repealed the 1917 Espionage Act in addition to commuting Manning’s sentence
Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.
‘A vaccine for the world’: U.S. scientists develop low-cost shot to inoculate global south
"We make vaccines for diseases that the pharma companies won’t make."
US youth win the right to sue US government for inaction on climate change
A group of US youth, ranging in age from 9 to 20, were granted the right to sue the federal government and fossil fuel industry over climate change and environmental degradation that endangers their future.
If this is artificial intelligence, let’s go with real stupidity
With AI, no matter how sophisticated it might seem, the consequences in war are apt to be horrific.
Standing Rock and the return of the nonviolent campaign
There’s something even better than electoral politics and one-off protests when mobilizing citizen power.
“All-out attack”: Trump’s anti-immigrant policies target children, cancer patients & service members
Some children born to U.S. servicemembers and government employees stationed overseas will no longer automatically receive citizenship.









