Saturday, April 1, 2023

Tag: Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s is carrying on a proud tradition of boycotts...

From the Boston Tea Party to the Montgomery bus boycott, an ice cream boycott for Palestinian rights fits right in with social movement history.

Ben & Jerry Arrested in Front of Capitol Building

Joining hundreds of other activists on Monday, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were arrested in front of the Capitol Building along with several top officials from the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the AFL-CIO, and NAACP.

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Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”

Covering (up) antiwar protest in US media

The national press is a no show.

US auctions giant stretch of Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling

Coming on the heels of the Willow decision, this certainly feels like another step backwards in the fight against climate change, which this administration has said is an existential threat.”

California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging

The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.

To hell and back

It is time to set in motion policies that would uplift veterans instead of pouring yet more staggering sums into a military that’s only sent so many of us to hell and back in this century?