Tag: Social Movements
Democratic Party ‘leadership’ is upside down
Clearly, much of the Democratic Party’s momentum is now coming from the left. And many of the positions that the timeworn Democratic leadership has staked out are now being overrun.
A Model for Democracy at the Grassroots Level
A grassroots movement in Iowa is an uplifting example of organized people power in action taking back democracy. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is fighting the avarice and arrogance of big-money corporations.
The Arc of Justice Bends Like a Rainbow
The painful struggle by brave gay and lesbian activists along with the movement for equality arose from the Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969. And therefore the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling came out of the power of struggle.
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Trump reverses water bottle ban in national parks
The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...
550,000 acres on fire in Alaska in latest sign of the climate crisis
Alaska's fires show the footprints of climate change in multiple ways.
For-profit company makes $750 per day, per immigrant child yet maintains deplorable conditions
For $750 a day a child could stay in a suite at Trump's Washington hotel.
Logic for progressives: an interview with Professor Ben Burgis
Ben Burgis, an author and professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, is on a mission to make progressives more effective in confronting the right with good arguments, whether...
Here are some of the climate-linked disasters and rollbacks Trump’s ‘environmental leadership’ speech didn’t...
“It's fitting that President Trump is promoting his awful environmental record on the same day that the White House is flooding after a historic storm.”