Portland public schools first to put global climate justice in classroom
Students learn about the front lines of global warming and how to be climate activists.
16 Attorneys General file lawsuit to protect DREAMers and preserve DACA
“To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong.”
An Open Letter to the People of West Papua
“We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia.”
Texas on Short Leash After Defying Court’s Voting Rights Order
After violating a court order intended to protect voters, Texas is ordered to submit all voting material for approval.
Woman freezes to death in parking garage after being evicted from affordable housing
Batts is the third homeless person to have died of exposure so far in 2017.
The shame of injustice
Everything that causes injustice must be uprooted, within the structures under which we live, but also, and perhaps more importantly, within the consciousness of the individual.
Judge in second Roundup cancer trial worked for firm that defended Monsanto
This week’s closing arguments followed a recent favorable ruling for the plaintiff – this despite new revelations about Chhabria’s past ties to Monsanto.
Making our demands both practical and visionary
How social movements are employing the concept of the “non-reformist reform” to promote far-reaching change.
Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State
Related cases brought by youth to protect the atmosphere are pending before other U.S. courts in the federal district court in Oregon and in the state courts of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Massachusetts and Oregon.
8 lessons US progressives can learn from the UK Labour Party
As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.