Saturday, July 12, 2025

Still in the Bush Embrace

What really stands in the way of closing Guantánamo?

San Francisco Becomes First Major City to Require Solar Panels on New Buildings

California also has more solar jobs and installed more megawatts of solar capacity last year than any other state in the nation.

President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading

If the Saudi government beheads these young men, it will further ignite sectarian hatred.

Ben & Jerry Arrested in Front of Capitol Building

Joining hundreds of other activists on Monday, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were arrested in front of the Capitol Building along with several top officials from the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO, and NAACP.

New Yorkers File Emergency Lawsuit To Give Voting Rights Back To 3.2 Million People

Voters in the lawsuit say their party affiliations were mysteriously changed.

NYPD Sergeant Caught on Video Choking an Unarmed Woman

The NYPD has banned chokeholds, so why do people keep ending up dead after officers utilize them?

Fight for $15 Movement Confronts The Presidential Candidates

The fact that Sanders has immediately embraced this executive order raises a fundamental question for Clinton: Does she really want to be on the wrong side of an issue that is a defining economic justice standard for the workers she needs to win the White House?

The Civil War Returns to New Orleans

“So, as we grapple with the need to regulate banks and pharmaceutical companies, greenhouse emissions and guns, let us give some thought to the regulating of racism and other hateful attitudes through the judicious use of those public institutions that help shape attitudes from generation to generation.”

Revolution Is in the Air

“We will have to do this together. No one will do it for us. And as the numbers in the streets swell the corruption of our political system becomes ever more apparent.”