Tag Archive: Social Benefits
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 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 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 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 ArticleThe D.C. Political Monopoly Just Does Not Get It
Released for Syndication: 12/23/2020
The spectacle of political “leaders” disconnected from basic social realities survived Trump’s defeat. He and his GOP had shown little grasp of the two...
Full ArticleWill the Dems Sell Us Out in the Midst of a Pandemic?
Released for Syndication: 12/21/2020
When politicians sell out to win, we all lose.
Full ArticleHow Georgia Voters Are Transforming America’s Future
By
Tom Conway
Released for Syndication: 12/18/2020
Vermeshia Slay burns up the phone lines these days, encouraging Georgia voters to join the burgeoning grassroots movement to transform America’s future. After delivering...
Full ArticleMillions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
Released for Syndication: 12/18/2020
India’s Hindu fundamentalist government has pushed through a deregulatory agenda for years. Now it has taken on farmers who have nothing left to lose and who are refusing to back down.
Full ArticleIndia Can Already Afford a Welfare State—It Just Needs to Tax Its Wealthiest Citizens
Released for Syndication: 12/17/2020