Tag Archive: Activism
COVID-19 Has Exposed the Fragility of Our Food System—Here’s How We Can Localize It
Released for Syndication: 01/25/2021
The pandemic has demonstrated the shortcomings of our mega-food industries and the necessity to localize food production. Farms and mills from Northern California to Canada are creating new small-scale, regional food systems.
Full ArticleThe U.S. Is Trying to Provoke a Soft Coup in Cuba
Released for Syndication: 01/22/2021
We are in the era of soft coups. Old-fashioned coups d’état and invasions get terrible press. The images of U.S. troops invading the Dominican...
Full ArticleHow the Community Helps Sustain Portland’s Ongoing Black Lives Matter Protests
Released for Syndication: 01/22/2021
Portlanders have been protesting everyday since May. Community mutual aid ‘blocs’ support BIPOC activists with everything from groceries to haircuts to tattoos.
Full ArticleChomsky and Prashad: Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
Released for Syndication: 01/21/2021
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before...
Full ArticleIt’s Time to Take America Back From the Brink
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/19/2021
When COVID-19 forced the 66-bed Maryhill Manor into lockdown, a resolute Veronica Dixon and her colleagues realized they had to make a choice: band...
Full ArticleJoe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education
By
Jeff Bryant
Released for Syndication: 01/14/2021
After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools.
Full ArticleHow Workers and Management at One Company Teamed Up to Fight the Pandemic
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 01/12/2021
For months, Penny Burroughs kept a close eye on working conditions at PCI Pharma Services and worried about her colleagues contracting COVID-19. Burroughs and...
Full ArticleHow Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S. History
Released for Syndication: 01/06/2021
Due to decades of activism by a coalition of Indigenous groups, commercial fishers, concerned citizens and environmentalists, Oregon and California state governments have committed to removing four dams along the Klamath River.
Full ArticleChomsky and Prashad: Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Released for Syndication: 01/05/2021
Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence...
Full ArticleYou Don’t Want to Imagine an Ocean Without Coral Reefs—But You Might Have To
Released for Syndication: 01/05/2021