More than 50% of our income taxes are spent on the Pentagon. Even a 10% cut in the military budget ($74 Billion) could: create jobs, affordable housing, schools, childcare and community health centers, sustainable energy projects, and clean drinking water facilities, end homelessness, and more.
A victory for the movement against police brutality was won in a lawsuit against the City of Detroit. The settlement means that a federal court will rule that the City of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department violated the constitutional rights of protestors during the George Floyd uprising of 2020.
This statement from the Center on Race, Immigration, and Social Justice at Sacramento State deals with the implications of the racist remarks made in private by three Los Angeles City Council members.
Democracy itself and whether we will have a government that meets the people's needs are on the ballot in 2022, and we will have to continue fighting after the elections.
Witness at the Border is organizing a 2,200-mile border pilgrimage from Brownsville, Texas to San Ysidro, California in early December to spotlight the brutality and immorality of US immigration policy.
October 29, 2022, marks the 1000th day that Friendship Park in San Diego/Tijuana has been closed. The fight to reopen this historic binational meeting place on the US-Mexico border continues.
As the effort of corporations to privatize our water, causing prices to rise even higher and water quality to further decline in many cases, people throughout the country are standing up to corporate power. People are coming together, demanding that government, local, state and federal, protect their right to clean and affordable water as a human right.
Chicago City College teachers and staff picket every City College demanding adequate compensation considering inflation, affordable health insurance for part-time professionals, and other necessities.
Javier Cazares, whose daughter Jacklyn was killed in the school shootings at Uvalde, TX, last May, is running for Uvalde county commissioner as a write-in candidate.
Read this article to find out what to do to secure your vote. The provisional ballot system has allowed for votes, especially of low-income persons of color, to be thrown out. An estimated 4 to 10 million voters might be purged this year, particularly Blacks, Indigenous peoples, Latinos, students and the poor.
The Flint community is angry but not surprised at what feels like Groundhog Day as it relates to injustice for Flint. This month, charges against seven defendants in the water disaster were thrown out by the courts.
The fight for clean water as a public good is gathering strength nationally. Hear voices from the Poor People’s Campaign in Jackson, Mississippi, where people have been suffering from government neglect of basic services like water for decades.
It is shameful that Governors DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey play politics with the lives of people seeking asylum and who are extremely vulnerable to abuse. Their political base may applaud these dangerous theatrics that could provoke more horrific acts of violence, but that shouldn’t absolve them of the responsibility and culpability they share in inciting such acts of violence.
In the early 1900s, the US government carried out a wholesale assault against American socialists, and this was among the factors that caused serious and lasting setbacks in the efforts to enact reforms like universal health care. Historically, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties
Many Mississippi families in need are denied assistance because funds targeted for the poor support things like pet projects of millionaire athletes, new volleyball courts, or sending affluent individuals to luxury rehab facilities.
Oakland and Sacramento unhoused people occupy a lot in Sacramento, calling on state officials to support the rights of unhoused people to permanent housing.
The following is a statement from Earth Justice, See the original statement at: bit.ly/3yijWVI — The Editors
“Today, the Supreme Court heard a case that...
