We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
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The Legacy of Occupy: Sticking It to Wall Street
To “occupy” Wall Street is no longer a policy demand, if it ever was. Extending democracy to Wall Street might be a better and bolder banner - with proposals for greater disclosure, accountability, regulation, a transactions tax and more.
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Divest! A Campaign Heats Up to Dump Fossil Fuel Funding
Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, groups are now asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies.
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"Spoils": Film Documents Americans Who Reap An "Extraordinary Harvest" From Waste
The modern freeganism movement — also known simply as dumpster diving — has spawned a culture of its own.
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia, as elites establish a world where most will be hungry and live in fear while a few will gorge themselves on delicacies in protected compounds.
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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
While increasing corporate patent rights and curbing Internet freedom, the TPP would also establish an "international tribunal" to enforce the "rights" of corporations over governmental law regarding environment, finance and labor rights.
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Numbers To Die For: What the Ultra Rich Are Getting Away With
Here are ten facts that reveal the deadening effects of inequality in our country and confirm that tax avoidance, rather than a lack of middle-class initiative, is the cause.
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Momentum Builds for Historic Black Friday Strike at Walmart
In a taste of what the nation’s largest retailer can expect on Black Friday, frustrated Walmart workers have started walking off their jobs to protest their employer’s attempts to silence outspoken workers.
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Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Reach New Record
Between 1990 and 2011 there was a 30 percent increase in radiative forcing—the warming effect on our climate—because of CO2 and other heat-trapping long-lived gases.
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Why is the Private Prison Industry in Our Schools?
The school-to-prison pipeline is an interlocking system of local, state, and federal educarceral policies that unduly siphon students from the school yard to the prison yard.
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Techtivist Report: Beware the Black-Box
Russia stole the lead this month in the race for Total Surveillance with the introduction of a law to ostensibly to trap pedophiles and prevent terrorist attacks that delves deep into its citizens' emails and watch everything they do online.
