San Joaquin Valley communities in California are going without water in the midst of record heat, and this is particularly affecting low-income people.
SAN JOSE, CA — More and more young and progressive candidates who are fighting for affordable housing, equal comprehensive health care, quality education for all, and to reimagine public safety, are winning in California.
The March on Washington was a phenomenal event that brought together people from all 50 states who work for a more just society. It brought the issues of 140 million poor and low wealth people to the nations’ seat of political power.
“there is SO MUCH power and brilliance in femme bodies and brains. we are power despite what they try to strip from us . . . our future sees femme energy as our liberator. that there is hope.”
The Supreme Court’s grim decision in the Dobbs case overturning Roe signals the validation of a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation. The multi-decade campaign to reverse Roe v. Wade has always been about building a political movement to seize and wield political power.
Turning our schools into fortresses and arming teachers is not a solution to mass shootings in schools. Hardening our schools implies hardening our hearts and minds and ceding more power to the police.
Charges have been dropped against Michigan officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, for their role in the poisoning of the people of Flint. The community demands justice.
The Uvalde massacre occurred in an existing, de facto war zone. The border security apparatus created by elected officials—Republicans and Democrats—has converted South Texas communities into a real and symbolic theater, complete with armed agents and heavy weapons, to project an image of toughness and power.
Outrage is growing in Akron, Ohio, after police officers killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, on June 27 after what was supposed to be a stop for traffic and equipment violations. Walker suffered more than 60 gunshot wounds.
If anyone doubted that American democracy – however partial and imperfect – is in danger, the stunning revelations of the Jan. 6 hearings and the recent series of court rulings are a loud wake-up call.
Friendship Park, on the U.S.-Mexico border south of San Diego, is a historic location where families separated by the border have been able to come and visit one another through the border fence. Now Biden's plans to continue Trump's border wall may effectively close the U.S. side of the park to the public.
Women, men and huge numbers of youth are in the streets across the country in uncompromising fight for women’s rights and for government to act in the people’s interests. After centuries of oppression and fighting for equal rights, women are letting the powerful know: “We won’t go back.”
On May 28, Reverend Edward Pinkney and the Benton Harbor Community Water Council hosted "Occupy the PGA," protesting the corporate takeover of the predominantly...
The deaths of the 53 people who perished near San Antonio June 27 and the deaths of the thousands of other migrants who have died trying to cross the border over the years are the result of an unjust immigration system that denies the humanity of migrants.
