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September 5th, 2015
Newsletter
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance - This Labor Day weekend rather than looking at the history and current struggles of workers, we look to the future[...]
Resist!
By Al Jazeera - Hundreds of mostly Syrian refugees have begun marching to the Austrian border after being prevented from boarding trains to Germany in the Hungarian capital Budapest. Authorities appeared[...]
Interview of Jesse Hagopian with Jaisal Noor - This means students will not be attending class on Wednesday, the first scheduled day of school, if a deal is not reached[...]
Create!
By Kali Akuno in Counterpunch - What the combination of theses efforts will amount to is the creation of Black Autonomous Zones. These Autonomous Zones must serve as centers for[...]
Educate!
By Sonali Kolhatkar in Truthdig - But actions speak louder than words, and police have made clear just how fast they can turn any encounter into a deadly one, whether[...]
By Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Peter Edelman, and LaDonna Pavetti in Talk Poverty - A new book by two of our nation’s foremost poverty researchers, Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, reveals[...]
By Nate Cardozo in The Electronic Frontier Foundation - At long last, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a slew of much-needed policy changes regarding the use of[...]
By John W. Roulac in EcoWatch - To the leadership at Greenpeace, Sierra Club, 350.org, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council and all other climate groups: Your organizations have worked[...]
Organize!
By Michaela Whitton in The Anti-Media and by Andrew Butler in Films For Action - Discussing the refugee crisis, the activist was frank: “Global displacement is a direct result of[...]
By Ben Norton in Mondoweiss - 21 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, but the world is largely ignoring it, an officer for international human rights[...]
By Ellen Brown - Dark horse candidate Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently leading in the polls for UK Labour Party leadership, has included in his platform “quantitative easing for people.”[...]
By Melissa Sanchez and Kalyn Belsha in Catalyst Chicago - Dyett High School will reopen a year from now as a neighborhood high school, but not with a focus on[...]
By Emma Whitford in Gothamist - Dozens of Crown Heights tenants and allies gathered for a candlelight vigil near the corner of Schenectady Avenue and Union Street last night, in[...]
By David Swanson - The United States and its European allies have launched wars on the Middle East that have created an enormous refugee crisis. The same nations are threatening[...]
September 4th, 2015
By Paul Buchheit in Nation Of Change - To followers of Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan, and to all the business people who despise government, ‘community’ is a form of[...]
By C. Robert Gibson in US Uncut - Anytime one of your old high school classmates or right-wing family members makes an ignorant comment on Facebook about how free college[...]
By Ryan J. Reilly in The Huffington Post - Law enforcement officials responding to demonstrations and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, following the death of Michael Brown last August used a[...]
By David Howard King in Gotham Gazette - Last November he United Nations committee on torture found that the United States was not in compliance with its Convention Against Torture[...]
By Steve Rushton in Occupy - Margaret Thatcher was asked in 2002 to name her most significant achievement. “Tony Blair and New Labour," she replied. “We forced our opponents to[...]
By Marianna Olinger in Waging Non-Violence - In recent weeks, the mainstream media has forwarded a narrative that the political crisis in Brazil is a result of internal corruption and[...]
By Karen Longwell in Northumberland News - About 15 protesters disrupted work at Enbridge’s Line 9B pipeline Wednesday morning. Protestors from the group Rising Tide Toronto arrived at the site on[...]
By Kirsten Wartman in Civil Eats - In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the Baltimore uprising after the death of Freddie[...]