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As the planet warms, let’s be clear: We are sacrificing lives...
Climate change is the result of a deadly calculus: human lives are worth risking and even losing over the profits of global corporations.
How outsourcing threatens America’s safety
“Choose wisely, because cheaper does not mean better. You get what you pay for.”
How collectives are empowering people to understand the tricky financial side...
Removing the taboo around talking about money, two collectives are helping people work toward securing their financial well-being.
Minneapolis teacher strike brought unity, victory and a reminder of the...
Teachers ended a nearly three-week strike, citing advances in pay and working conditions for many members. But more work remains.
Unclear federal law allows logging, farming and mining to threaten America’s...
No version of “waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS), part of the Clean Water Act, adequately protects the nation’s natural areas.
Housing is a human right—here’s how to make it a reality
The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.
How one organization is helping to grow cooperative businesses in New...
Green Worker Cooperatives nurtures co-op startups in the South Bronx.
How a cooperative run by the formerly incarcerated is reshaping Chicago’s...
Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
More than two dozen major lawsuits are putting a price tag...
Four years ago, Boulder, Colorado, sued ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy—owner of the only oil refinery in the state—for climate change-related damages and...
How Portland’s activists are bringing mutual aid to the homeless
Mutual aid offers a route to directly help people living outside, and potentially save lives through the winter months.
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A putz at fascism, too! Trump’s feral, libertarian despotism ordains oligarchy, not centralized dominance...
Trumpist extremism turns out to be a particularly noxious, authoritarian brew better called “oligarchic, authoritarian libertarianism.”
Tens of thousands protest Trump’s ‘big ugly budget bill’ in nationwide day of action
Organizers and families in over 225 U.S. communities rally against historic cuts to Medicaid, food aid, and education, demanding support for working people over billionaires.
‘Tactical pause’ in name only: Israel kills dozens as starvation crisis deepens in Gaza
As Israel touts limited pauses in its assault on Gaza, humanitarian groups decry continued attacks, worsening famine, and blocked aid as part of a deliberate campaign of suffering.
Palestinian activist featured in Oscar-winning film killed by Israeli settler previously sanctioned by US
Awdah Hathaleen, a peace activist and co-creator of No Other Land, was shot and killed during a settler-led raid on his West Bank village, days after his deportation from the U.S. and months after Trump lifted sanctions on his accused killer.
Judge blocks Trump attempt to defund Planned Parenthood clinics serving Medicaid patients
A federal court injunction halts a Trump-backed law that would have cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, threatening care for over a million patients nationwide.