Wednesday, November 13, 2024

The New Battle of Seattle

While fossil-fuel corporations are exploring the world’s oil, protesters in Seattle are banding together to stop Shell’s plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. And they don't plan on backing down to these catastrophic effects on climate change.

My Teacher

Chris Hedges discuss Rev. Coleman Brown's legacy and how Brown had the most profound impact of all his teachers on his education.

Abortion is a fundamental human rights issue

It is a women’s rights issue—among the right to vote, the right to free movement, and the right to live free of violence.

Is Greece’s ‘No’ on the Debt Referendum Another Youth Revolution?

The way politics works, and the different categories of politics, has changed drastically over the past few years. Having a left, right, socialist, capitalist, etc. view is beginning not to matter, while Millennials enter into the world of activism and human rights.

The Lonely American

In today's technological day and age it's impossible to build relationships and structures that are vital for civic engagement and resistance to corporate power. Yet, have we been transformed into commodities?

The day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Let’s move beyond stereotypes and recognize the ideas, movements, and rights of all peoples formerly and still subject to the violence of fossil colonialism. 

States of Terror

We waded into conflicts in the Middle East we did not understand, propelled forward by fantasy. And our folly spawned a death spiral of political, social and economic collapse, widespread poverty, massive displacement, misery and radical jihadism.

Climate activists in New England can finally celebrate ‘the end of coal’

Activists know better: Nonviolent direct action gets the goods.

"The Army Knew:" New Investigation Unravels Mexican Govt. Account of How 43 Students Disappeared

The untold story of how 43 students disappeared in Mexico on the night of September 26, 2014 unravels after an "explosive new investigation" was published by The Intercept. And the Mexican government is at the center of the investigation.

‘Landmark’ verdicts like Chauvin murder conviction make history – but court cases alone don’t...

Courts are limited in the kinds of disputes they can hear and the sorts of relief they can provide.