Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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May Day to Have Immigrant Tilt as Workers Plan to Protest Against Trump
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their allies will be marching on the streets and striking on May Day for the annual workers’ protest – expected to be the largest in years because of the activist energy galvanized by Donald Trump.
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People’s Climate March draws 200,000 protesters as Trump flees to coal country
What environmental protest?
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Part II: 34 Ways America’s Legal System Hurts the Poor
The German playwright Bertolt Brecht said many things about the law as it relates to capitalism. His most memorable quote: “The law was made for one thing alone," he wrote, "for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.”
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A DIY People-Powered Vision for Brexit: Giving Citizens a Voice on E.U. Withdrawal
According to the organization 38 Degrees, there is a general accord that the people of Great Britain should be involved in the Brexit negotiations rather than leaving it to a handful of Parliamentary elites in a boardroom in Westminster.
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The Student Debt Crisis Is Exploding–Nothing Less Than a Student Debt Jubilee Will Do
Alan Collinge, the founder of Student Loan Justice, says current legislative efforts won't relieve current students of debt nor protect future students from acquiring debt – and he anticipates that the college debt crisis will explode within the next year.
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100,000 & Counting For People’s Climate March On Washington On April 29
Attacks on U.S. citizens, communities, and the planet cannot continue.
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How the Government Is Turning Protesters Into Felons
Lost between the tumult of Inauguration Day and the spectacle of the Women's March was the arrest of 214 protesters – who are now facing felony charges and 10 years in prison.
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How the March for Science Seized San Francisco, Fuelling A Growing Movement
“The tone of the conversation is that scientists fundamentally felt like their work, who they were, was being questioned," said March for Science creator Kishore Hari, calling Saturday's protests "the largest science event in the history of humankind.”
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Grassroots Candidates Will “Rise Up” To Electorialize The Resistance
People are turning the protests of the past 100 days of the Trump administration into an audacious bid to reclaim power on every political level, from municipal governments to Congress.
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Fresh LIBOR Revelations: Is the British State Complicit in World’s Largest Systemic Fraud?
New revelations suggest that not only was the LIBOR rate rigging fraud a systemic practice by big banks – but Bank of England and the government in Westminster were also in on the big fix.
