Friday, February 14, 2025

One Southern Leader Bridges Civil Rights’ Past and Black Lives Matter’s Future

Irving Allen on creating an inclusive movement. “You’re not organizing unless you’re training up the next generation.”

‘Reclaim Our Schools’: Cities Rally Nationwide to Save Public Education

Thousands gather to protest budget cuts, high-stakes testing, and state takeovers of public schools

A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’

Will Potter’s reporting reveals what he believes is an assault on free speech in defense of big profits for Big Ag.

Flint Residents Charged the Highest Rates in the Country to Drink Poisoned Water

Flint residents were not only drinking contaminated water for months, they were being forced to pay over double the average rate for a typical American family.
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Bernie Sanders Releases Powerful Civil Rights Campaign Video

“I want to see an America where when young black men walk down the street, they will not be harassed by police officers. They will not be killed. They will not be shot!”

Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK

In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.

Japanese Hunters Evade Sea Shepherd, Kill Hundreds of Whales

The whalers expanded their hunting grounds in the Southern Ocean to make it difficult for the environmentalists to intercept them.

FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food

The federal agency already tests for residues of many agricultural chemicals on food. Now it will include the widely used weed killer linked to cancer.

Meat Is Murdering American Rivers

Government data shows that food processing plants are the biggest toxic polluters of waterways in the U.S.

Nickel and Dimed in 2016

It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line. You can't earn a living on the minimum wage.