Why vegans should focus on farmworkers’ rights
The harsh reality is that, in the realm of factory farming, workers are mistreated nearly as often as their animal counterparts.
No charges filed against NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner on video
Justice Department officials announced Tuesday that no federal charges would be filed against suspended NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for directly causing the death of Eric Garner in 2014. Despite the fact that Officer Pantaleo was recorded...
Guantánamo’s forever elusive endgame
It’s now more than 20 years later and that American offshore symbol of mistreatment and injustice, the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,...
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 27, 2018
What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.
Groups Ask Clinton For “Unequivocal Statement” On Lame-Duck TPP Vote
“Your continued leadership is sadly necessary as President Obama refuses to abandon this unpopular deal.”
Here’s one more good reason not to launch a nuclear war
“Even a conflict that doesn’t involve the United States can impact us and people around the world.”
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
It's time we continue the rumblings of rebellion that already frighten the corporate state because dismantling corporate power in community after community is perhaps our only chance of survival.
911 operator sentenced to probation after hanging up on thousands of emergency calls
After a jury found her guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls, Williams was recently sentenced to community service and 18 months probation.
BREAKING: Dakota Access Pipeline nearly completed
Will Energy Transfer Partners obey the Department of Justice and Army Corps of Engineers orders?
Helene unleashes a hurricane of anti-semitism
"How they're going at me is surprising because Marjorie Taylor Greene has made this inference that Jews control the weather, and I'm a Jewish mayor and somehow there's a correlation." Asheville's Jewish Mayor, Esther Manheimer