Tag: gun control
Sunflowers vs. Gunpower: March For Our Lives takes on the NRA
Several hundred students, parents and supporters brought signs calling out the gun rights organization.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Infowars gets banned, U.S. Fish and Wildlife turns against saving the bees, and more.
‘Never again:’ To ‘demand they listen,’ activists stage rally at NRA...
"We don't want thoughts. We don't want prayers. We want change."
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 9, 2018
Trump freezes Obamacare payment program, Starbucks says goodbye to plastic straws, Colorado schools are arming teachers with no state oversight, and more.
What can be learned from a mass shooting that didn’t happen?
We may never have to confront a mass murderer, but we all can and must work on a culture bringing mass murder into our troubled world.
Study reveals Americans own 40 percent of all guns owned in...
“The biggest force pushing up gun ownership around the world is civilian ownership in the United States.”
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 28, 2018
Americans own 40% of the world's guns, the Republican tax plan has made the U.S. debt the highest since World War II, Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire, and more.
Parkland students join Chicagoans to march against gun violence
"We just want peace. With this type of movement, with this amount of people we can definitely get something done."
Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 18, 2018
Separating families at the border, the Poor People's Campaign, Republicans and the NRA fight against gun regulations, and more.
Boulder, Colorado passes new gun control laws
Boulder now joins a few other cities and towns throughout the U.S. that are passing laws aimed at banning the controversial AR-15.
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Keystone XL pipeline canceled. Here’s what it means for the future fight against fossil...
“Rescinding KXL’s permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. We have to insist that it not stop there.”
The roots of the Capitol insurrection
Allowing them and their followers to distance themselves from what happened would be the kind of strategic blunder we too often see from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
Conservatives Criticize Michelle Obama For Bare Arms, Stay Silent On Melania Trump’s Nude Poses
Trump's wife, possible future First Lady, receives no criticism for nude photoshoots while Michelle Obama is insulted for bare arms.
Nonviolent activists laid the groundwork to oppose a coup. They may have saved the...
Activists prepared for months, expecting Trump to steal the election. They were right, and he failed.
Enough of the T***p! End the White House Trumpery!
Let’s all make ‘trump’ a dirty word and restore the Old English term ‘trumpery’ to modern vernacular.