California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers goes into effect: A milestone in...
Fast food workers at establishments with at least 60 locations nationwide will see their wages increase to $20 an hour, a substantial uplift from the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
States Repped By Energy Science-Denying Republicans Leading Way on Wind Power
These Republicans have supported legislation that has helped finance wind investments, but have also adopted Republican dogma on climate science.
Sheriff indicted on 16 charges including theft in office
“Reader just does whatever he wants and no one ever calls him on it... We are scared to death of him... He is unstable and threatens people.”
Beyond resistance: The story of 2016
Maybe someday we’ll look back and say this was the year a revolution began.
UN study claims US has the highest rate of children in detention
Children are being detained at a younger and younger age and held for longer periods of time.
Cops admit to targeting citizen after he filed complaint against them
“Spiteful retaliation from law enforcement officers towards a citizen for any reason is an unacceptable option.”
Facebook often removes evidence of atrocities in countries like Syria and Myanmar – but...
Recent history has shown that social media companies cannot be trusted to preserve vital digital evidence of atrocities.
Building a Trump-free, fossil-free future
While it is impossible to know what future course the Trump era will take, we do know that the future of the planet and its people depend on resisting and overcoming the president’s anti-climate agenda.
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse: At least 10 arrested in #EvictICE action
Nearly filling the lobby nine activists, most of with who were wearing "Evict ICE" t-shirts locked arms in front of the hallway that led to the first floor of the building.
A reformist program on immigration (or what Harris might have said)
A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.