Friday, September 11, 2026

Tag: equality

A foreign policy that can change everything for everyone

Women talk about gender, racial and economic justice. But anti-war messaging is still missing from the resistance movement – and there can be no justice without peace.

Population and the Environment

Today we are pressing against the absolute limits of the earth’s carrying capacity.

ICE killed Roxsana Hernandez

The war on refugees claimed another victim on May 25.

A diverse group of activists rally in NYC to remember the...

It was a message to the world that not all American's are okay with the senseless gun violence in this nation.

Don’t just resist. Return to who you are

"The idea of Indigenous resurgence is resonating with young people."

5 Indigenous women asserting the modern matriarchy

They are reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.

Disability activism: The movement America forgets too often

Disability activism — Americans advocating for policies that are in the best interest of those living with disabilities — has floundered where other movements have soared.

Our racial and ethnic roots in all their tangled diversity are...

Trumpian white supremacy has it all wrong.

Yance Ford: The first transgender director nominated for an Oscar

"If my nomination can help in any way to advance the issues of trans-equality and protection for LGBTQ people under the law, then I am as humbled by that as I am by the nomination."

When economic growth indicates failure

For the well-being of most everyone – including the rich – equality is more important than growth.

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The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.