Break up Facebook (and, while we’re at it, Google, Apple, and Amazon)
We must resurrect antitrust.
Indigenous peoples & local communities offer best hope for our planetary emergency
We must start by standing with those environmental defenders who are safeguarding their lands and territories, and we must secure a future for the planet by securing their rights, tenure, and governance.
High-tech workplace surveillance: New report warns of dystopian mass surveillance amid COVID-19
“The speed at which these new privacy-shredding technologies have been unleashed is alarming, especially given that none of them have been proven to be effective at mitigating the spread of COVID-19.”
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 10, 2018
U.S. Army discharges immigrant recruits that were promised citizenship, who really is Trump's Supreme Court pick, military contractor used Arizona “black site” to secretly jail dozens of migrant children,and more.
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
Trophy hunting – can it really be justified by ‘conservation benefits’?
Killing animals for fun is an activity which divides opinion. It can also be a highly emotive issue, with high profile cases...
Venezuela: What activists need to know about the US-led coup
“The United States has a long history of inappropriately intervening in Latin American countries. We must not go down that road again.”
Indigenous peoples go to court to save the Amazon from oil company greed
Historic lawsuit launched by the Waorani people of Ecuador to save their homes – and our planet – from destruction.
5 ways small actions have huge power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
U.S. journalist & activist Brandon Lee shot in Philippines after being called “enemy of...
American journalist and indigenous and environmental rights activist Brandon Lee remains in critical condition in the Philippines more than four weeks after...