Tag: Jim Crow
‘Gerrymandering Arms Race’: GOP rushes to erase clack representation after SCOTUS...
Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a “gerrymandering arms race” that “could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era,” explains Berman.
‘Jim Crow in a suit and tie’: Georgia Senate approves massive...
“One of the worst voter suppression bills in the country” just advanced in Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature.
The new poll tax
These state laws are another form of voter suppression – like gerrymandering, voter ID requirements, and bars on anyone with felony convictions from voting.
Against reason: The ‘war on drugs’ continues, will Trump make it...
While activists have won some important battles in putting an end to the costly debacle of the drug war, the fight will continue.
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Congress targets SCOTUS Roundup ruling with new warning label bill
This newly introduced bipartisan bill called the People Over Poison Act (H.R. 9528) seeks to mandate health warning labels on pesticides and restore consumers' rights to sue chemical manufacturers.
‘Conspicuous corruption’ solidifies in-your-face Trump Legacy for militant, ‘up yours, suckers’ derision
It's as if America was feeling so bad about itself that it had to replay the politics of self-mutilation, as if loaded with masochists.
Massachusetts healthcare workers strike against hospital giant
About 4,500 nurses and home-care clinicians walked out after contract talks with Mass General Brigham broke down over pay, staffing, insurance costs, and patient care.
Cut the Pentagon, save the planet: The $1.5 trillion climate solution we can’t ignore
The Pentagon budget is a clear target, with the potential to address rising environmental, economic, and public health crises globally.
How unions pave the way to the American dream
Because unions provide a voice on wages, safety, and other issues, they empower workers at a moment when a depressing sense of helplessness haunts many other Americans.