HUD to rollback protections for transgender people in taxpayer-funded homeless shelters
“The ACLU will fight back against this attempt to write discrimination into the law. Shelters funded by taxpayers should be open to all – period.”
Former police officer sentenced to prison for deprivation of civil rights
Off-duty Buffalo Police Officer Robert Eloff Jr. is going to prison for failing to treat an injured man who later died.
Solidarity – plus 10 other reasons women showed up to march
The Women’s March illustrated what a wide variety of issues women will have in the years ahead with Donald Trump.
The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements — here’s what organizers can do...
Public relations poses distinct threats to environmental movements, but activists are becoming more savvy and developing new forms of resistance.
If at first you don’t secede
We can negotiate our way to a far more satisfying set of sovereign nation-states. We can do it without bloodshed.
As Public Pensions Shift to Risky Wall Street, Local Politicians Rake in Political Cash
A recent political scandal in which investments done in secret are politically connected with Wall Street's firms who are in return earning millions off of taxpayers is getting little coverage. Journalist David Sirota is revealing his findings about these secrets to Democracy Now.
Family life without fossil fuels – slow and satisfying
A visit to the Possibility Alliance reminded me also that the one constant of life is change.
Why hurricanes Harvey and Irma won’t lead to action on climate change
The hurricanes of Harvey and Irma will be a catalyst for a new age of realism regarding the hazards of climate change.
Demanding wide-reaching reforms and an end to slavery, inmates in 17 States plan prison...
"Every single field and industry is affected on some level by prisons, from our license plates to the fast food that we eat to the stores that we shop at."
New report outlines Trump’s actual work agenda: ‘Drop dead’
"Trump has betrayed America's workforce, sacrificing lives at the altar of industry profits."








