Friday, May 1, 2026

Tag: social justice

Why the voting rights struggle is a tipping point for American...

E.J. Jenkins vividly recalls the day his mom worked a voter registration drive at a grocery store in Gary, Indiana, and followed...

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.

Kamala vs. Mitt: Two different viewpoints of family planning prefigure different...

Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.

How Oregon is turning the page on America’s disastrous drug war

“Our immediate focus is to ensure every Oregonian knows these critical harm reduction and recovery services are being invested in and expanded so that they will be available to anyone who wants and needs them, and that they can feel comfortable and safe accessing them.”

It’s time for corporations to get off the sidelines on social...

It’s both good ethics and good business to support the rights of Black Americans and women when they are under assault.

Black, Hispanic, and Asian donors give more to social justice causes,...

Giving to racial and social justice causes is on the rise—especially among donors of color. African Americans are the most likely to give to strangers of all racial and ethnic groups.

You’ll know an economic and social justice plan is serious if...

A new report on the solidarity economy details how investments in culture can support economic and racial justice.

In Minnesota’s ‘most diverse city,’ schools are addressing the community’s deep...

Educators use the community schools approach to tackle underlying causes of disparities that show up in classrooms.

New UN climate report is ‘code red for humanity,’ but joining...

In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable.

Protestors gather to highlight social justice and environmental ‘crime scene’ at...

Scottish climate activists gathered this weekend for their first “climate camp” in a decade to campaign against Scotland’s third largest polluter.

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May 1 deadline could trigger constitutional clash over Trump’s Iran war

As the War Powers Resolution clock expires, a legal confrontation is emerging over whether President Donald Trump can continue military operations in Iran without congressional approval.

The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.

A peace agenda to end military madness

To create a safer world, millions of Americans need to mobilize to end the war on Iran, prevent nuclear proliferation, halt the arms race and slash military budgets.

War-fueled oil profits deepen what critics call an obscene transfer of wealth

As TotalEnergies and BP post surging profits tied to oil price shocks from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, critics warn that fossil fuel giants are once again converting geopolitical crisis into shareholder windfalls while households absorb the economic pain.

What makes the MAGA misrule tragedy historic? Total foregone conclusion. Total knowability and avoidability. 

Paying the corrupt MAGA piper is now a lead “investment” – with outcomes as predictable (and problematic) as all that voters repressed when empowering the Trump II horror show.