Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
Mass Shooting in Orlando Gay Nightclub
Details are still emerging in the horrific mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, but here is what we know so far.
Poland officially enacts ban on fur farming
The legislation was signed into law by President Karol Nawrocki and it marks the end of an era as the European Union’s largest remaining fur producer.
Big Tech faces first social media addiction trial
The major social media addiction trials are being compared to historic litigation against big tobacco and opioid manufacturers, with potential for billions in damages and forced changes to platform designs.
Bayou Bridge resistance: The pipeline fight heads to the south
Opponents of the pipeline say it could wreck the region's fragile ecology, damaging the basin and destroying Louisiana’s multi-million dollar crawfish industry.
Giving Kentucky’s young people a reason to stay
A voice and the power to solve problems will make progressive young people see their future in conservative and economically struggling Central Appalachia.
How the police stand to benefit from abolition
Although extending compassion to police officers might seem like a heavy lift, it is necessary if we want movement work to succeed.
Police don’t do a good job tracking hate crimes. A new report calls on...
A day after the FBI released its latest hate crime numbers, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights detailed the many problems with those statistics and what should be done to fix them.
The global People’s Climate Marches were massive. Here’s what organizers have planned next.
Pipeline fights, legal challenges and elections are driving the next phase of the climate resistance.
College Professor Suspended After Wearing a Hijab, Showing Solidarity with Muslims
A tenured Professor at Wheaton College in Chicago was suspended this weak after wearing a hijab and announcing her solidarity with Muslims in the wake of building tensions and violence against the Muslim American community.