A Last Earthly LifeBy Kathy Powers
Today,the last alive organism,a lone sunflower
Starvedby a field ofdusty concrete soil
Parchedby plastic waterthat quenched her
Chokedher life breath snuffedby fossil...
Citing dangerous conditions, lack of adequate food and medical care, and cruel legal obstacles that keep many in captivity for months, protesters gather outside as several hundred detainees go on hunger strike at the ICE North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, MI.
The cost of war is astounding — in terms of lives lost, tax dollars spent and human suffering as social programs are cut to pay for war spending. But, giant corporations, billionaires, politicians and others in high places, profit immensely from war.
Sign up for the May 14 webinar that will explore the "Expanding and Unaccountable Powers of the US Immigration Enforcement System." Pedro Rios will be the moderator, and the panelists include Dr. Marla A. Ramirez, Todd Miller and Camilo Perez-Bustillo.
'The resistance to data centers in Michigan is awe-inspiring! Data center proposals are canceled across the state and country due to public resistance. We want food, water, and clean air.'
There is something profoundly broken—morally, culturally, economically—when a workplace responds to death with not even a pause. The message was clear: the Amazon packages matter more than the people moving them.
What's going on with the economy? Why is it that the stock market overall has been booming in recent months, while jobs are dwindling and many of the jobs that are available don't pay enough to live on?
In this piece originally published at Truthout, Hend Salama Abo Helow, a researcher, writer and medical student at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, speaks about the deep connection of Palestinians to the land.
Teatro Chicana, a grassroots theater troupe, created by first generation college students in the 1970s developed plays highlighting gender inequality, sexual violence, and more within the farmworker and civil rights movement. Two of the founders speak to LAist about the significance of that work for today.
Nurses care about their patients and want to help them in every way; so they are organizing, building national networks for patients’ rights, fighting to abolish Ice, for healthcare, not warfare—all as an extension of their caring for all patients.
Trump has pledged to keep committing war crimes in the US-Israeli war of aggression against the Iranian people, but the majority of Americans are better than this and are rallying themselves to stop the war.
