Friday, January 17, 2025

Tag: injustice

How urban planners disenfranchised black communities in west Oakland

“The planning profession has to reconcile that because they have been complicit in this whole issue, not only in Oakland, but in cities all across the country.”

Which way America?

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

The path to a livable future

For the past several decades, Noam Chomsky has been one of the most forceful and persuasive voices confronting injustice, inequity, and the threat posed by human-caused climate chaos to civilization and the Earth.

As US ‘drowning’ in unused doses, WHO Chief laments ‘horrifying injustice’...

“None of us is safe until all of us are safe. The tragedy of this pandemic is that it could have been under control by now, if vaccines had been allocated more equitably.”

Routing the two-tier system: Part V: Justice and injustice

The two-tier system does not just exist in connection with our economic system.  Despite our lauded Bill of Rights, our justice system...

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.

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The Santa Ana by Joan Didion

Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.

FDA bans red no. 3, citing cancer concerns and mounting advocacy pressure

FDA takes a major step in food safety regulation by banning cancer-linked dye.

Gaza deal: What it means for peace in the Middle East—expert Q&A

We asked Scott Lucas, an expert in the Middle East conflict at University College Dublin, to explain the key issues that have led to the agreement and what it means for the future of the region.

Israeli airstrikes kill 73 in Gaza just hours after ceasefire announcement, including 20 children

Israeli strikes escalate in Gaza even as cease-fire talks continue amidst a humanitarian crisis.

Elon Musk shouts fire firefighters in a crowded theater!

As in Musk's idiotic claim, the arguments against Affirmative Action and DEI are riddled with lies and tinged with racism and sexism.